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Derogatory term: Wog
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Derogatory term: Wog

Question answered by podkayne1 in Scientology

FredricRice asked this question on 9/5/2000:

I've run across Robert A. Heinlein's use of the term "Wog" in his book, "The Number of the Beast." I know that L. Ron Hubbard hated "Chinks" as he called them, and that the Scientology cult uses the derogatory term for anyone who hasn't been suckered into the cult.

Did Hubbard get the term from Heinlein? Or was the racist term merely one od many used in Hubbard's time and Hubbard -- and his insane cult -- merely adopt the use of the term?

Thanks.

podkayne1 gave this response on 9/10/2000:

_TNotB_ was published in 1980, long after Hubbard used the term. The Heinlein characters were from an alternate universe extension of Victorian-era British colonialism, when the term was common.

Heinlein characters did use a lot of slang from that era, but none of the others ever used "wog" - but then, none of the others were racist colonialists.

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