[lbo-talk] 'Master/slave' Most Politically Incorrect Phrase

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 4 11:57:45 PST 2004


Samuel Waite wrote:


>"first year student" rather than freshman

It's been that at the University of Virginia forever, and that's hardly a hotbed of PC-ness. The reason is that's the term that dead white male slaveowner, Thomas Jefferson (UVa's founder) used.

Doug



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