And having done my time as a working-class student at a bourgie liberal university, I'll use "bleeding hearts" as much as I please, although I generally prefer more colorful terminology.
It's only a "moldy cliche" if you haven't experienced it firsthand.
On 4/10/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> My assumption has always been that the use of this moldy cliche
> ("bleeding hearts") is a surer sign of deep racism than even the N word
> -- the cliche might be termed an expression of "the racism of the
> coward."
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