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Topic subjectIf thats the case, what makes it so offensive?
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12896682, If thats the case, what makes it so offensive?
Posted by melmag, Tue Sep-15-15 07:39 PM
the word itself doens't seem to carry any historical weight at all.
like, how did it become the equivalent of "nigger" for Latinos??

So basically, a foreigner mispronounces a word, then said word becomes
the perjorative term for that foreigner's people?? Am I right?? smh


>I guess "speak" would be pronounced similar to "spic" by
>native Spanish speakers.