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Americans cringed - not at the crude attempt of moral...
WHEN GENERAL Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev brushed off charges of human-rights violations in the Soviet Union with the question, ''What about the wetbacks?'', Americans cringed - not at the crude attempt of moral equivalency, but at the use of a term now regarded as a slur.
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'', Americans cringed - Americsans were very embarrassed not at the crude attempt of moral equivalency, not because G. was saying in a very simple way that both countries have similar moral problems with human rights but at the use of a term now regarded as a slur . but because the term 'wetback' is no longer used by most Americans to refer to illegal Mexican immigrants, and the word itself now shocks Americans when they hear it.
- '', Americans cringed - Americsans were very embarrassed not at the crude attempt of moral equivalency, not because G.
- was saying in a very simple way that both countries have similar moral problems with human rights but at the use of a term now regarded as a slur .
- but because the term 'wetback' is no longer used by most Americans to refer to illegal Mexican immigrants, and the word itself now shocks Americans when they hear it.
- In other words, they were more shocked by the word he used than by the idea he was expressing.
- Clive.
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Hi,
WHEN GENERAL Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev brushed off charges of human-rights violations in the Soviet Union with the question, ''What about the wetbacks?'',
Americans cringed - Americsans were very embarrassed
not at the crude attempt of moral equivalency, not because G. was
WHEN GENERAL Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev brushed off charges of human-rights violations in the Soviet Union with the question, ''What about the wetbacks?'',
Americans cringed - Americsans were very embarrassed
not at the crude attempt of moral equivalency, not because G. was
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cringe: recoil/shrink (because of the embarassement, in this case)
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Marius Hancucringe: recoil/shrink (because of the embarassement, in this case)Thank you, Marius.
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