If you are a member of the campus thought police and offended by the word “dago,” too bad. Here are some other offensive synonyms for “Italian:” wop, greaseball, greaser, goombah, mobster, and garlic eater. I grew up being called all of those slurs. But until recent times, I was never called a privileged white. It takes a special kind of stupidity and cultural insensitivity by academics and their fellow Mao-style cultural revolutionaries to mash together scores of distinct ethnic groups, shades of skin color, nationalities, and socioeconomic classes into one glob and then to say that...
A Dago’s Perspective on Diversity and White Privilege
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