Rep. Eli Crane used the derogatory phrase in describing his proposed amendment to a military bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.

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    21 year ago

    An accepted term by who? Why does that matter? It’s not now and you’d have to be pretty far up your own butt to miss that. Either way they should know this as politicians representing all kinds of people. There’s no excuse. The fact that he said it so casually is pretty damning. People that aren’t actually racist and that care about those they’re discussing would never make this slip.

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      11 year ago

      I’d seen speeches of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, etc and other civil rights leaders use the term before. But it is out of fashion now. Yeah, I guess being a politician and not knowing language stylistics is dumb. But political rhetoric and legalese is filled with antiquities. Between stuff like this and politicians who don’t know know how new technology works is frustrating and embarrassing. Sometimes I try to think wishfully about it but when they repeated make the same mistakes it can be hard.