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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 shan
by 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 agoThe correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing