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Also, if you're not from the USA, you're more likely to associate it with the beloved Rowan Atkinson sitcom.

• OJFord 2y ago
  Or the non-politically-loaded phrase that the sitcom is named for.
  • o11c 2y ago
    There's a difference between "not politically-loaded decades ago" and "not politically-loaded now". We still let people use the Swastika if they had a harmless tradition of using it beforetime. But if anybody new uses it, we assume it's because of the murder.
    • OJFord 2y ago
      There's also a difference between 'the USA' and 'the rest of the world'. I don't know how Tso was using it and don't care nor have any reason to defend him, don't mistake me.
  • defrost 2y ago
    > the non-politically-loaded phrase You mean its popularisation and heavy use by William Henry Parker III, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (from 1950 to 1966)? He very much used it in a loaded manner to portray police as bastions of good and the last defence against "the criminal element". From his wikipedia page: Parker himself was known for his "unambiguous racism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Parker_(police_officer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Parker_(police_offi...
• o11c 2y ago
  Of the key members of this drama though, almost all of them live in the USA.