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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:19 +0200, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:0jBlh.12967$wI4.10939@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:
> Scripsit Brian M. Scott:
>>> No, these days "racism" is a general-purpose curse word
>>> that has no denotation; it expresses its user's strongly
>>> emotional disapproval of something.
>> Depends very much on who's using it;
> Not any more. As soon as a word has been widely taken into
> curse use, it becomes virtually impossible to use it in
> any other way, except perhaps in limited circles, such
> as scholars who can really agree on using such a word as
> a term.
While it has certainly started down that road, I don't agree
that 'racist' has reached that point. 'Fascist', yes;
'racist', no.
[...]
>> I know a fair number of people, myself included, who
>> haven't even generalized it as far as Joachim suggests.
> You still cannot use the word "racism" without being
> understood as expressing just your disapproval of
> something.
That's bullshit. To be more precise, it's an
over-generalization.
[...]
Brian
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