[thelist] Site Critique Please - Woggz.com

Colin Buttimer c.buttimer at mdx.ac.uk
Thu Sep 27 10:07:19 CDT 2001


I'd have to second Tony's comments here - it's definitely not a good name
for anyone from the UK. Niggerz can in certain circumstances be used (e.g.
NWA), but Wog, etc no.

All the best, 

Colin.

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Colin Buttimer
Team Manager/Creative Director
Web Development Team
Middlesex University  ext.6909



> From: Tony Crockford <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:57:26 +0100
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Site Critique Please - Woggz.com
> 
> It's a nice clean site.
> 
> Shame about the name though.
> 
> In the UK and it's empire, WOG was derived from western oriental
> gentleman i.e. Black and was used as a derogatory term for many years
> until becoming politically incorrect and no longer used by polite
> racially aware Brits.
> 
> I'm sure you wouldn't have called your site niggerz?
> 
> It amounts to the same thing.
> 
> Maybe a rethink is in order.
> 
> Have fun
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> 
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