War on Wogs

Sobran's ^ | 8/13/2002 | Joe Sobran

[Onelifetogive]

I can vaguely remember liking this guy, but after reading this, I have no idea why.

How many Iraqi wogs were killed in the 1991 Gulf War? How many died of disease and malnutrition because of the destruction of the infrastructure, the pollution of waterways, and the subsequent “sanctions”?

Did we start a war with Iraq in 1991? As I remember it, we simply forced Iraq out of Kuwait. Maybe we should have gone further, but to say that we started something because we think of Iraqi's as wogs is laughable.

[hchutch]

How far off this Sobran? He has to be a world-class ostrich if he is halfway serious...

[Jerrybob]

I thought the word was "Frogs"!!! as in "Chariots of Fire".

[madvlad]

This loozer sounds like a WOG. Perhaps
he should be terminated.

Besides, what about all those non Wogs who were
killed on 9/11?

Also, I'm in favor of bombing Paris!!!!
'Bombs away!" After all, the frogs are wogs!!!

Mad Vlad

[angkor]

I think old Joe was trying to make a point, then he became lost and maybe a little bit frustrated.

That "Japan as wogs" ending seems a bit too awkward and convenient, as if it were time for a few hearty belts of the nightly brandy and Joe could see that his column was spinning out of control with no hope of a decent conclusion.

He probably had been watching AMC on cable, heard David Niven call someone a "wog," and thought "what a stupendous idea for a column, we are all wogs."

Such is the life of a columnist.

[South Dakota]

Wogs,,, Worker on govt. service. that acronym came from the letters put on the uniforms of native workers

[WayneM]

You forgot the barf alert....

[Britton J Wingfield]

True, the United States is also the only country that has ever used those weapons.

I guess it doesn't count when Saddam used sarin and VX against his own wogs.

[1234]

what's SOBRAN's ethnicity?

[denydenydeny]

This one boils down to an assurance that American racism is to blame for everything that's wrong with the world.

Sobran was a conservative a long time ago. Now he's Noam Chomsky.

[dennisw]

I guess it doesn't count when Saddam used sarin and VX against his own wogs.

How about that 9 year war between the Iraqi wogs and the Iranian wogs? One million Muslims killed at the hand of Muslims.

[Onelifetogive]

You forgot the barf alert....

Sorry, immature poster. I'll learn the ropes.

[hang 'em]

Sobran, you silly gobshite, all wogs go to paradise and collect 72 virgin wogettes.

Now leave the politics to the non-senile and go back to pondering who Shakespeare really was.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Wogs" came from the building of the Suez Canal. The workers had WOGS painted on their back to signify "Working On Government Service". Maybe apocraphyl, but...there you go.

[archy]

Back in the days of the British Empire, the Brits had a rude word for the natives of the countries they ruled: wogs. It was said to be a derisive abbreviation of the phrase worthy Oriental gentlemen.

Sobran didn't even get past his first paragraf without a factual error. the abbreviation is for wily Oriental Gentlemen, not *worthy,* or it would hardly apply to the Frogs, er, French, who are certainly not Oriental, and rarely worthy, but do indeed sometimes exhibit certain wily and crafty ways.

-archy-/-

[archy]

what's SOBRAN's ethnicity?

'E's a wog, mate!

-archy-/-

[Poohbah]

Sobran was a conservative a long time ago. Now he's Noam Chomsky.

ROTFLMAOPMP!

[angkor]

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorw.htm

Wog

This chiefly British phrase is a holdover from the days of the Empire and is a disparaging term for an Indian (from India, not America), an Arab, or any other Asian. More recently, wog has been used to refer to any foreigner, or even jokingly to anyone outside the greater London area. The phrase is commonly thought to be an acronym. What the acronym supposedly stands for, however, varies in the telling:

• Westernized Oriental Gentleman
• Worthy Oriental Gentleman
• Wily Oriental Gentleman
• Wonderful Oriental Gentleman
• Working On Government Service

This last was supposedly emblazoned on the back of shirts worn by Suez Canal workers. The numerous variations and a total lack of any evidence to suggest any acronym is the origin lead to the conclusion that these are not correct etymologies.

While the origin is not known for certain, most sources agree that it is likely short for golliwogg, a blackfaced doll with frizzy hair. Golliwogg was coined by Bertha Upton in two children's books published in 1895, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and A 'Golliwogg'. By 1907, the golliwogg was in generic use for anything Asian. Wog is believed to be a clipped form of Golliwogg.

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[gcruse]

 worthy Oriental gentlemen. Later an anonymous wag observed, “Wogs start at Calais”
— that is, right across the English Channel. Even the French were wogs!

No, not really.  The French are Frogs.  And WOG is
derived from wily/western oriental gentleman.   I first
heard it as westernized oriental genteman.  I don't
think worthy oriental gentleman quite fits the bill.

Why didn't I hear Sobran criticizing the use
of 'gook' during the VietNam War?  Oh,
right.  The Jooz weren't fighting that one...
 no matter how outrageously the Israelis behaved.

Up yours, Joe.

[gcruse]

Golliwog

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