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		malcolmgreaves on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on... > 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?

markdown on July 5, 2022 [–]

The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

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