August 31, 2006

NY Times Unsure About What "Macaca" Means

Link: Voters Hearing Countless Ways of Saying ‘Sorry’ - New York Times.

Mr. Allen offers something of an object lesson. “I do apologize if he’s offended by that” was Mr. Allen’s first attempt in L’affaire Macaca before his mea culpas spiraled into progressive handwringing and culminated in a phone call to his victim, S. R. Sidarth, a 20-year-old volunteer for his opponent, James Webb. (The Webb campaign questioned whether the remark was a racist slur because macaca can refer to a monkey.)

Is there an alternative definition of "macaca," of which the New York Times alone is aware?

Posted by Anupam Chander on August 31, 2006 at 08:55 PM in Globalization | Permalink