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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > "Everything is problematic" - McGill activist's story about deradicalizing
 
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Armani
Jun 22, 2008

Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

Space Whale posted:

Unless I'm mistaken, it's just an alliteration for "collection of things" like "mob of mooks" as a nonsense word. Then there was a Korean war and Gook became an insult, and to say "gook" in isolation is to be clearly racist.

Did it only exist as a racist term in the first place and then got normalized to the point I heard it growing up without any obvious racist connotations?

I post in peace and mean no harm: I THINK the term got telephoned to you from 'Gobbledygook':

gob·ble·dy·gook
ˈɡäbəldēˌɡo͞ok/
nouninformal
noun: gobbledegook
language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms; nonsense.

This is my guess. This is a term that's still used openly, and it's drat old.

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