I am half Chinese and half white. I am “ethnically ambiguous” as they say. I learned the word, “miscegenation” from the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou,” a film from 2000, but set in Mississippi in 1937. 6 months later, my high school history teacher asked me what my ethnicity was, and when I told him, he said, “Ah…

If only these twits realized that this is what they turn into when they use that word.

Same here! I’d never heard it until I read those tweets.

I think I’ve only heard it in movies... set in the past. I honestly didn’t think anyone used it anymore. Last time I remember hearing it was in Oh Brother, where art thou? I had to go look it up too then, although from context it was pretty clearly a complaint about integration of white and black races.

I had to look it up also. I couldn’t slam that tab closed fast enough. People make me sick.

Ditto. Almost made three decades without knowing it existed.

I never heard that word until reading this article, either. I have a feeling what it means based on context clues, but I really don’t want to look it up because my feeling is that it’s a very, very nasty word.

I know - I just looked up the term (being a non-native speaker) and now I feel kind of gross and want to scrub myself clean in the shower. It’s hard to believe that people are actually still using that word, wth.

I, on the other hand, am heartened that you were ignorant of this word until today. Maybe there is hope for a better generation.

It’s an old, old, old word, boo.

Laura Silverman also tweeted that these folks are probably just mad because they spent their last $5 on that word.

Right? Does he not have a job? Does he not have any non-creepy hobbies that he can spend his time on?

Not as mean spirited as allowing Reagan to continue as president while suffering from dementia.

Holy guacamole. We pay at least three times that.

I thought the same thing. She is a swimmer with a dynamite body. This is a fail.

Harper creek Middle School

I pledge to mail 30.

oh no I accidentally bought a book of O’Keefe postcards. Ooops. Shame to waste them. I wonder what the postage is for a postcard from the UK to Michigan. x20.

YAS! Let’s!

We live in a society where someone can lose their job for saying the proper name of a body part that at least half the population has.