Have just gotten an angry letter telling me that "Canuck" is an ethnic slur.
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Right. My point was that my students had a very hard time accepting the idea that Quebecois could have legitimately used racialized language, or that Nègres Blancs or Speak White could have been anything other than appropriative. I think they’d laugh at Canuck as a slur.
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But my broader point was that Muskie wasn’t that long ago, and that Canuck can have different valences to different people.
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