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Calling someone from the Philippine Islands a "Flip" is exactly the same as calling a Jew a "Kike" or using the N word to refer to an Afro-American. It is as mean as it gets. I only found that out when I taught in a school with students who's parents were from the Philippine Islands. Oh, there are more..but I needed to update on that awful term that Trump used...Others will verify this, but this is indeed ugly.
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(16,375 posts)Stuart G
(38,428 posts)So sad that this person represents us as a nation.. A national embarrassment.
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(16,375 posts)Truly, CBS should change the name of its Sunday show to Disgrace the Nation.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)this is about that
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Urban Dictionary: Goo Goo
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goo%20Goo
Equivalent to the racial epithet, "n****r", which was also used to refer to Filipinos. Google "Goo Goo Philippines" and reference Wikipedia "Philippine-American ...
This was the second term referenced-I had never heard it before.