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Southern racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black"
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SOURCE: Boing Boing (1-27-08)

The Canadian National Post looks on with mild horror as American linguists report on the growing trend in the American south to use "Canadian" as a masking euphemism for black people, so that white racists can say socially inappropriate things without tipping listeners off about the cancer in their souls.
Source: 
Boing Boing
Source URL: 
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/27/southern-racists-ado.html
Date: 
1-27-08

I thought this was the Onion for a second

Submitted by philips on Tue, 2008-01-29 05:45.
A: Say, we don't get many Canadians in here.

B: No, and with prices like these you won't get many more, either.