[Magdalen] The Deen controversy

[Grace Cangialosi]

That was exactly my experience, Jay, except I don't remember actually saying either word. My understanding was that, if God didn't strike me dead. The irony was that my parents thought nothing of using every other ethnic pejorative you can think of. In fact, my mother once referred to my son as "my little Wop grandson." I went ballistic!
Oddly enough, I never actually heard anyone say the F-word until I was 29, though I had seen it written on plenty of lavatory stall doors. Someone new to our therapy group said it, and I literally thought I was going to pass out or throw up. Such power we give words...

> On Sep 24, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My parents were both raised in Missouri; their parents came from,
> respectively, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Michigan. I once used the
> N-word in front of my mother at the age of 4 and got my mouth washed out
> and a very serious talking-to. It was considered as a serious as the f-bomb
> in our family and was not to be used under any circumstances.
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> When I came at 14 from Canada, I swore a lot but it wasn't racist. Not long
>> after I started high school here as a sophomore someone asked me not to
>> swear using Jesus Christ. I was quite surprised but remembered it.
>> 
>> In the segregated US Army later on, I'm not sure what words I may have used
>> or what jokes i may have laughed at. Those were days when every ethnic
>> background was made fun of.
>> 
>> I'm not about to apologize for being born too early.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Yeah if it was recorded, no if it wasn't.<<<
>>> 
>>> I should have been more specific.
>>> 
>>> I used racial epithets in the past, and regardless of recorded or not,
>>> I've long since reformed and have a successful TV show.  It gets found
>> out
>>> that in the past I screwed up but no longer do, and I get fired.
>>> _________________________________________
>>> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
>>> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
>>> - The Rev Mr John Donne
>>> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Allan Carr
>>