[babelfish]

Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.

[markdown]

It's not a new word.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai...

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied

[malcolmgreaves]

That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.

[markdown]

It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".

[malcolmgreaves]

> irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?

[markdown]

The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

[xfitm3]

I don't believe this comment is made in good faith, there is nothing wrong with the "right" and it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.

[malcolmgreaves]

There is something deeply wrong with the authoritarian politics of the right and its casual use of racism to further political control.

> it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.

This comment, whether you realize it or not, is coming from a place of extreme social privilege.

Remember that for the majority of people, politics is not a game. It is serious. People lose their rights to live the life they want all the time. Sometimes those politics turn violent and people lose everything.