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• n  macaques; rhesus monkeys

• Bloggers also made "macaca" into a scandal that helped sink Webb's opponent, George Allen.
• OFFENDING REMARK: "This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is.
• Allen's infamous "macaca" gaffe was followed by a series of muddled apologies and non-apologies that elevated the obscure racial slur into headline status.

• Macaca
• genus Macaca

Quotes

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• Al Sharpton in FOXNews
  George Allen got 'macaca' _ this might be a step past that,Sharpton warned.
• Larry Sabato in WXii 12.com
  Everything started going downhill with macaca,said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "George Allen took an uncompetitive race, where he was cruising to re-election by 15 points or better, and made it a...
• Laura Dawn in Village Voice
  Moveon.org's Laura Dawn says her favorite part was "the moment we knew that Rick Santorum was defeated, which was only exceeded by the moment we knew George 'Welcome to America, Macaca!' Allen was defeated. This is terrible schadenfreude, but Ted...