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Re:Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach... by malcolmgreaves on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:44PM (#31994128)
That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
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Re:Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach... by markdown on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:53PM (#31994213)
It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".

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Re:Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach... by malcolmgreaves on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:57PM (#31994254)
> irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?

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Re:Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach... by markdown on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:12PM (#31994408)
The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing
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