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obamanut2012

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1. Please edit out the slur in your post

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:17 PM

Sep 2025

You posted:

>This lying gook

There may be a regional slang term in your area meaning something else, but irt's known as a slur. And, it doesn't make a difference that Van Orden is white.

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Please edit out the slur in your post obamanut2012 Sep 2025 #1

Looks like typo if kook to me... JT45242 Sep 2025 #4

LOL what happened dweller Sep 2025 #2

Please don't use the word gook. It is a slur. Solly Mack Sep 2025 #3

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