"In spades" is now a slur.
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I know "spade" by itself is a somewhat obscure racial slur, but "in spades" has a completely separate meaning and they know it.
you don't hate journalists enough.
We must assist the urinalists. We must dredge up all of the obscure slurs, and use them, all the time. We must not call them niggers, but call them abids (Arabic for slaves), alligator bait, apes, bamboulas, banaans, black bucks, Bounty Bars, Buckwheats, burr heads, coons, cotton pickers, crows, darkies, dinges, eight balls, festival children (Soviet slang), golliwogs, groids, heiguis, houtkops, jigaboos, jungle bunnies, kaffirs, kalars, kuronbōs, kamdungis, Mau-Maus, Moon crickets, munts, niglets, nig-nogs, Sambos, Sheboons, shines, sooties, spooks, thicklips, or toads.
You missed Hottentots, but that is a surprisingly comprehensive list, haven't heard jungle bunny in about 40 years
I haven't heard Hottentot in... decades. Forgot about it!