Can Spick n'Span get out gook and grease?

I won't step into your grease trap! (Although I thought you were too "yellow" to be leaving "dirty" comments.)

During World War II, two American soldiers spy a Japanese plane overhead: "There's a little nip in the air."

Brother told me that one as I recall. He also once wrote an anti-Japanese haiku:

"Small beady slant-eyes
Short and sneaky
With yellow skin.
Boy I hate you!"

Reminds me an old spy movie* I once saw. The American spies were prisoners of some evil secret organization out to take over the world, and the evil leader explained: "This eagle is trained to detect and attack Americans." The hero: "An anti-American eagle. Diabolical."

Which reminds me of a time when a bunch of friends and I were decorating a Christmas tree when one guy started singing: "Oh, come, all ye doubtful..." A girl remarked: "An anti-Christian Christmas carol!"

(*I think that called "Our Man Flynt". It starred James Coburn, who also starred in "The President's Analyst".)

"That's real white of you." said the Klansman.

Is "Aryan supremacy" a white lie?

Some racists have tried to blacken Martin Luther King's reputation.

Writing this in English discriminates against people who can't read English. And it's on a computer screen instead of in Braille so it discriminates against the blind, too.

Better send only e-mail, which rhymes with female. Don't send any snail-mail because that rhymes with "pale male" -- the root of all evil. Guns are Politically Incorrect because if you pull the trigger that rhymes with...

Hmmm.... Our local newspaper, the Seattle "P.I." is often very "PC" in its editorial viewpoint, while I'm writing all this Politically Incorrect heresy on my PC.

Someone really ought to "nip" this thread in the bud, Steven!

Considering that the word "chink" is a perfectly innocent English word, I think you would have to prove that it is intended to be derogatory in the case of the deli's use. That seems to be obviously untrue here. Not that this would discourage people who are determined to see racism everywhere.

I refer you also to an incident where a middle school student got in trouble for using the word "gay" in conversation with another child, in an entirely non-perjorative context.

Sorry about the racist jokes. I hope you realize that I'm laughing AT the racists, not WITH them. That's my sense of humor, such as it is, as I said: I laugh AT not WITH. It's precisely because those jokes are so disgusting and stupid and shitty that they're funny to me. That's my sense of humor, such as it is: disgusting and stupid and shitty.

Of course, I was also making fun of the Political Correctness, and enjoying the taboo element. In another age, I suppose jokes about sex would be funnier. I'm certainly enjoying the Archie Bunker-cum-Ayn Rand style of Mr. Arnold Harris of Mt. Horeb, WI, on Dean Esmay's blog. Extremely interesting thread on homosexuality there. Dean's World and Classical Values are my two favorite blogs at this point.

I'd better mention that my brother, who wrote that haiku, is really a liberal and not a bigot of any kind. He just has a good sense of humor.

Maybe my sense of humor is a little WASPish.

I'd better quit now. This thread was threatening to make this blog look like "The Corner". (Laughing AT not WITH Derbyshire, Dreher, etc..)

Thank you Steven and Anne,

I particularly enjoyed a comment left at the post about the child disciplined for using the word "gay":

The underlying psychology (as expressed in the desire to eliminate an opposing viewpoint through linguistic manipulation) is the same.....

I completey agree.

Excellent! Dean Esmay had a thread on this about a month ago. He was quite outraged. A school trying to make a boy ashamed of his mother.