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oldfashioned69 t1_jd55xrk wrote

used to work at an ice cream shop - enough people claimed it's a racial term, so I go with chocolate sprinkles

Vice had an article from a couple years ago

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PowPowPowerCrystal t1_jd5evto wrote

That’s a really poorly written article.

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Bada__Ping t1_jd5laep wrote

This article:

-Jimmies is a regional term from New England but somehow has something to do with the Jim Crow South, although we have 0 evidence of that

-Here are a handful of reasons why the term wouldn’t be racist

-The term is racist

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pornplz22526 t1_jdiygrh wrote

I'm getting really tired of New England being saddled with the historical baggage of other regions...

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raptorjesus2 t1_jd5kydz wrote

You should have corrected them because they were flat out wrong. They are named after the machinist who ran the machine that first created them.

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lizyouwerebeer t1_jd5n0zh wrote

Whoa cool! Is that true? I've never heard that before but that's fun.

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pornplz22526 t1_jdiypmq wrote

Did you actually just use a slur for the mentally ill while decrying all words as offensive if somebody acts offended?

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