The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I was being sarcastic and taking the whole thing to an extreme.

As an amusing aside. When I first started working at the cannery in Kodiak, Alaska, I was told to do something and then needed directions and was told "it's over by the chinks" and he pointed to where a bunch of Filipinos were at work.

I was appalled and later confessed to a coworker. That is when I learned that the machines they were working with are called chinks for reasons compoletely unrelated to the race of the people operating them. So I forgave the person who said this. It was only later I learned that in his parlance the chinks were operated by gooks (which isn't even a correct use of the term since they were all Filipino). So I had to unforgive him.

And there is no way Romney should have been unaware of the connotations for some since it was so publicly discussed just a couple months ago with Tony Snow (and George Will also got in trouble for it a few years back).