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		Jun8 on March 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain The phrase you people is generally understood to have racial tones, e.g. http://mashable.com/2012/07/19/ann-romney-you-people/ or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/why-you-may-be-a....

cstross on March 17, 2015 [–]

Planet Earth calling: if that's so, it's a specifically regional -- i.e. American -- thing. (I'm in Scotland, where it definitely doesn't.)

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