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It's not a new word. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghaied https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai... https://ww

• malcolmgreaves 4y ago
  That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
  • markdown 4y ago
    It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
    • malcolmgreaves 4y ago
      > irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?
      • markdown 4y ago
        The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing