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Is this racist? I didn't think Star Trek was racist. (midwest.social)
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It might be hard to tell, but that's Scotty under all that blonde hair.

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[-] ordinarylove 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

as christian hegemony was most often portrayed in legacy American media, they really do have a bunch of nonsense sounding words that are technically blasphemy, it used to be a more common thing to portray before the 00s when they started letting commonly understood swearing on media

  • bejeebus
  • zounds
  • ah geez

please shout more at my comment if you like

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Cripes!

[-] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jeepers!

Golly! Gosh!

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Criminently!

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Humbug! I call humbug.

[-] ordinarylove 2 points 3 weeks ago

1751, in Oxford and Cambridge student slang, "a trick, jest, hoax, imposition, deception," a word of unknown origin; it also appeared simultaneously as a transitive verb, "deceive by false pretext." A vogue word of the early 1750s; its origin was a subject of much whimsical speculation even then. "[A]s with other and more recent words of similar introduction, the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention" [OED].

THERE is a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion, which, though it has not even the penumbra of a meaning, yet makes up the sum total of the wit, sense, and judgment of the aforesaid people of taste and fashion. This word is HUMBUG. [The Student, vol. II no. 2, 1751]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/humbug

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