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Examples
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Unfortunately, the same kind of racist insensitivity that makes some feel that stereotype gesturing like this are OK, also made it easier to drop Napalm on Vietnamese children or for a presidential candidate to call them "Gooks" years later.
Raymond Leon Roker: "Hannah Montana" Needs Some Sensitivity Training 2009
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In Vietnam, the Vietnamese were "Gooks" and in World War II, they were "Japs."
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No, but he still called them "Gooks" until fairly recently.
Barack Obama responds to the criticism over Jeremiah Wright. Ann Althouse 2008
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To say nothing of Vietnam, where we called them "Gooks" and "VCs"!
Latest Articles 2008
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To say nothing of Vietnam, where we called them "Gooks" and "VCs"!
Latest Articles 2008
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I do not think that a Black candidate who commonly refers to Asians as "Gooks" would be allowed 20 steps from the White House.
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I do not think that a Black candidate who commonly refers to Asians as "Gooks" would be allowed 20 steps from the White House.
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To say nothing of Vietnam, where we called them "Gooks" and "VCs"!
Latest Articles 2008
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To say nothing of Vietnam, where we called them "Gooks" and "VCs"!
Latest Articles 2008
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To say nothing of Vietnam, where we called them "Gooks" and "VCs"!
Latest Articles 2008
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