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The Racial Slur Database - "Yankee" (Is it time to ban the 'Yankees'?)
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Posted on 06/19/2014 12:03:05 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Slang used primarily by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer to people of the Union states. Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, "Yang-gees," which morphed into "Yankees" by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763.


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To: 11th_VA

Typical Yankee logic.


61 posted on 06/19/2014 12:39:50 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Vigilanteman

I was 11 years old before I knew “damnyankee” was two words!


62 posted on 06/19/2014 12:40:01 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 11th_VA

Yes, I was living in Connecticut, at the time, and still got a hearty chuckle, out of it ;)


63 posted on 06/19/2014 12:40:54 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: 11th_VA

North Carolina Tar Heels. It would be a heel on a Tar Baby.


64 posted on 06/19/2014 12:42:12 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: Rebelbase

“carpetbagger” (McAuliffe is the modern colloquialism)


65 posted on 06/19/2014 12:42:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: wolfpat
Then you ought to REALLY be offended by Syracuse University’s mascot.

Orangemen are to the Irish what Hamas or Hezbollah are to the Israelis.

Yes, come to think of it, I am highly offended!

66 posted on 06/19/2014 12:43:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Especially if you wear mismatched socks.


67 posted on 06/19/2014 12:43:26 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

I never use the term “Yankee”

I prefer to call them “Damn Yankees”


68 posted on 06/19/2014 12:46:22 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: 11th_VA

Tennessee Volunteers will have to get rid of their mascot, Smokey. It’s a coon dog.


69 posted on 06/19/2014 12:46:33 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: PGR88
From Wiki:

Irish nationalists and Catholics have compared the Orange Order marching through their neighbourhoods to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marching through an African American neighbourhood.[113][114] The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association of the 1960s-1970s, described them as "Britain's Ku Klux Klan" who wrote to Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh:

We viewed the [Orange Order] as similar to the KKK – so bare-faced and confident enough in the bigoted status quo that they wore bowler hats and sashes rather than white robes and pointed hoods.[115]

Who knew? We need to ban them too !!!

70 posted on 06/19/2014 12:48:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: 11th_VA

Face it. Anything that a normal person says is likely to be taken as a slur.


71 posted on 06/19/2014 12:51:33 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

Think the people of Nebraska want to cheer for my high school’s “Golden Tornadoes”?


72 posted on 06/19/2014 12:52:55 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: 11th_VA

The Acromegaly Community is applaud with the insensitive and heartless use of the word “Giants” for a professional football team.


73 posted on 06/19/2014 1:01:55 PM PDT by rsobin
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To: buffyt

“I am highly offended by EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!”

That’s the French in you coming out.


74 posted on 06/19/2014 1:04:05 PM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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To: 11th_VA

Anaheim too!!!


75 posted on 06/19/2014 1:05:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: wolfpat

“That’s people who moved from the Northeast to Florida, didn’t like it, and moved halfway back.”

That’s cute!


76 posted on 06/19/2014 1:05:58 PM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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To: glennaro

LOL!!!!


77 posted on 06/19/2014 1:06:29 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: ScottinVA
There used to be a CFL franchise in Ottawa called the Rough Riders, as opposed to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who were founded in 1910. The Ottawa team was named after Teddy Roosevelt's crew in 1898 and folded in 1996. Ottawa sports team colours are red and black. A new, 'politically correct' franchise will start the 2014 season sporting the name Ottawa RedBlacks. How pathetic!

That said, if someone wants to be offended at the name, they will be.

78 posted on 06/19/2014 1:11:40 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: buffyt
So,,you are like me.

Part Potawatomi, French, and Scottish....

I'm offended by Liberals mostly. And the Democrats too.

I could care less about the Washington Redskins.

The most racist people I've come across mostly are Redskins and Blackskins.

Yeah there's some Whiteskins too....but it seems mostly red's and black's.

I live in a town that's named after an Osage Chief....

All FWIW-

79 posted on 06/19/2014 1:16:41 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Cap Huff
More likely a derogatory name for New York Dutch, from Jan-Kees (a typical name) or Janke (a diminutive of the Dutch name Jan).
Yankee is similar to the Chinese for English: ying guo.
80 posted on 06/19/2014 1:20:09 PM PDT by Prolixus (We feed; they breed.)
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