[docbnj]

He says that I am shanghaiing his values? That would imply that I am taking his values. No way, professor! You can keep your values, is that’s what you wish to call them.

By the way, isn’t the term “Shanghaiing” culturally insensitive? It doesn’t bother me that much; but in this new secessionist country you are planning (perhaps to be located on an off-shore oile platfomr), you better be careful with demeaning language like that.

[Spacetrucker]

"By the way, isn’t the term “Shanghaiing” culturally insensitive?"

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Truth be told, "shanghaiing" refers to the late 18th century practice of Chinese local drug rings kidnapping sailors, rendering them unconscious and putting them on an outbound ship, usually heading for a far-flung port. So, if he's saying we're shipping their values off so they cant come back, I will readily accept that.