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Politics : President Joe Biden
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To: Jamie153 who wrote (1688)5/15/2021 4:38:48 PM
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oh true. And it was used to protect Jim Crow laws and to hammer Clinton. My only point was it wasn't really a deliberate choice, but something that sort of grew up because steps weren't taken to stop it.

I was listened to A Way With Words on NPR. They went over the history of the word. It seems to have grown out of a term for "piracy". So it isn't like it has an esteemed history.
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