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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by jacquesm on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:31PM (#15990658)
White? US Citizen?

That's saying more about you than about the name "Harvey".

It came from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by asveikau on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:43PM (#15992615)
> Harvey is just a name... A name of an old, white, male US citizen.

I'm not sure why, but it seems like the name Harvey was also very popular among Jewish Americans 50+ years ago and beyond. Almost every famous American Harvey I can think of has a typically Ashkenazi last name. Often that happens for names that are Hebrew or German in origin, but looking it up it seems the name Harvey is English, via the Bretons.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by Zardoz84 on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:02PM (#15990867)
It's the name of the imaginary rabbit that a drunk talks on the bar, on a scene of Rigger Rabbit.
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