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That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
by malcolmgreaves 4y ago
That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
- markdown 4y agoIt 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 agoThe correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing