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Re: Blacks, Gayes, Peters and Adolphs
by SalientMan

Names that should be struck from the books:

Black (racist)

Brown (racist)

White (it implies gentrification is okay, which is racist)

Harry (impolite to the follicularly-challenged)

Little (offensive to vertically-challenged)

Dick, Rod, Peter, Pecker, Dong, Wang (obvious reasons)

Adolf (Hitler)

Sam (could be short for "Saddam" or "Osama")

Bush (obvious reasons)

Ben (short for "Benito" as in Mussolini)

John (bathroom)

Chastity (sexual in nature)...

The list goes on. However, I think the point is valid. Americans have been indoctrinated to have such a knee-jerk reaction to anything Islamic or Middle Eastern (or anything that even SOUNDS vaguely Islamic or Middle Eastern), especially in relation to Saddam Hussein (currently the most famous Hussein), that I think there really IS an argument for saying that people shouldn't use his middle name. Beyond the argument that he doesn't call himself that, and we should call people what they want to be called. Even if it's Harry Dick Peter John White Little-Wong.

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