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[–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The fact that the only adults I know regularly saying it are right wingers, has made me paranoid that it's some secret Nazi shit. Even though I can find no evidence of that online.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Near as I can tell, there's nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    thanks for teaching me a new word!

    that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"

    good times.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:

    And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

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