Patrick

We dont hear these terms because we choose not to hang out with people who would use them.

I saw this one

Adolf - Germans - Hitler, of course. Generally thought of the worst person ever.

A Fox News-ism, generally thought of the the worst person ever, well its subjective for one and two there have been so many genocides and manipulations of peoples throughout history, what makes him more a more worse person that Pol Pott, Idi Amin, Alexander the great, Rwanda's Hutu Power dictatorship who massacered 800,000 Tutsi's, Kublai Kan and the romans.

Even Bush uses the same techniques a Hitler to get his people to do what he wants so who is to say Hitler is worse than Bush, it all comes down to how it will be writen in history books.

You have to say, without Hitler there would be no "The Producers", so he wasn't all bad.

cindyabs

You left out Stalin-he was responsible for even more deaths than Hilter.

Patrick

is tht why they where taken off my marmalde jars then?

cindyabs

I wonder if a term I grew up with was meant to be a slur? We called baby frogs, pollywogs, not tadpoles. I never even thought of that before?!

Patrick

and Mussolini, Henry VIII, Vlad the Impaler, the Turks, the Russians, The Croates, the messopatamians, the British and many others who thought it was there God Given right to exterminate other races or peoples. I could go on for ever, its very subjective whether these Hitler was a more worse person than any of them?

Rete

Bingo !

Just caught this thread or I would have written where I thought the term came from. I'm in my 50's and that term was used when I was growing up. So it isn't all that old.

cindyabs

Hmm, I think in the list of Kings and Queens of England,Henry VIII would have been bush league compared to Richard the LionHearted and Edward I.

Bob

The jam man cometh?

Bob

I didn't think it was either...

But this is what it says: Referring to "Boogie Woogie" form of jazz? Could come from W. African "Buuker" or "Buckra", meaning "Devil", "Boogie man" or "White Man". Turned around and used against Blacks by Whites.

ukemigrant

This link has some more info:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=36

Quote:
The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe. Spooky is from 1854.