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>An example springs to mind: I gave a speech >when running for school president and I called a >former candidate "a dark and sanguine man." >People who hadn't even bothered to look the word >up first came to me angrily afterwards, assuming >it had been a racial slur.

Sounds like they should pay a visit to our friend Snook Draddots...

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