This is some sort of breakthrough: Former Virginia senator George Allen lost his reelection campaign after he lobbed an ethnic slur meaning monkey at an opposition campaign worker. That's right, thePosthas unambiguously declared "Macaca" to be an ethnic slur, only eight months -- to the day! -- after George Allen first used it. There's not a "some say" or an "alleged" or a "what some call" to be seen.
WaPo Calls a Macaca a Macaca
WaPo Calls a Macaca a Macaca
WaPo Calls a Macaca a Macaca
This is some sort of breakthrough: Former Virginia senator George Allen lost his reelection campaign after he lobbed an ethnic slur meaning monkey at an opposition campaign worker. That's right, thePosthas unambiguously declared "Macaca" to be an ethnic slur, only eight months -- to the day! -- after George Allen first used it. There's not a "some say" or an "alleged" or a "what some call" to be seen.