I was in graduate school in the early 90s. It was a time when the full fury of political correctness was just beginning to take a stranglehold on U.S. colleges.
The administration of the graduate school implemented a plan to better identify their ethnic demographic mix. As a result, all students were required to wear color-coded badges identifying their ethnicity, which in turn would be tracked by the registrar.
Some of the categories of hyphenated Americans they used. . .
African-Americans (obvious).
Asian-Americans.
Latino-Americans.
Islamo-Americans.
Judeo-Americans (surprised they didn't require the Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their coats).
Homo-Americans (no joke).
Lesbo-Americans.
Feminist-Americans (for the straight women among us).
Some enterprising, arrogant PC type chimed up that they needed a category for European Americans. The administration, hoping this would fall through the cracks unnoticed, had to come up with a category for the heretofore ubiquitous straight, white, American males that populated their campus. And hence. . . (drumroll). . .
Euro-American Scum was born.
Descriptive of all fascist oppressors of women, the oppressed peoples of color of the third world, and all hate-filled homophobic bigots.
We were issued special non-preferred parking permits for the "Death To George (H.W.) Bush" rallies they held on campus every Friday afternoon.
It's been a badge of honor ever since.
LOL!!
Well, welcome to the Canteen, Scum!!
He he he!!!
Interesting--I'm an Appalachian-American myself.