Derogatory term: Wog (private)

Question answered by imredfox 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.

imredfox declined to answer on 9/5/2000:

This question is a (barely) veiled attempt to annoy me and flame my religion. I knew Mr. Hubbard, personally, and he was totally unprejudiced. There are people of all races, colors, and ethnic origins in the Church of Scientology, and in our Creed we state that all people of whatever color, race or creed have certain inalienable rights, which it goes on to enumerate. Scientology has salvaged many lives, including my own, and I resent this attempt to denigrate it, and its Founder.

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