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Thursday, August 17, 2024
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"Let's give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."

—Virginia senator and presidential aspirant George Allen addressing S.R. Sidarth, a young man of Indian descent, at a campaign rally; the man works for Allen's Democratic challenger, Jim Webb. "Macaque" is a French Tunisian slur for people with dark skin; Allen's mother is French Tunisian. Spelled "macaca," the word means either a monkey from the Eastern Hemisphere or a town in South Africa. Allen says he has no idea what he meant by the term.

Sidarth, by the way, was the only non-white person present in a crowd of about 100.....
  8:20 AM  
Comments:
thank you, Richard, for managing to sum up this incident so succinctly. Slate and Salon both ran articles that went into long and detailed etymological excursions that, while interesting, detracted from the main point.
# posted by Anonymous : 10:54 AM
 
macaca es su caca, n'est-ce pas?
# posted by Anonymous : 11:25 AM
 
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