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mere gook rule
noun
a belief during the Vietnam war that a crime committed against a Vietnamese person was not a crime US- At that point the grunts allowed the “Mere Gook Rule” to enter their value system: a crime wasn’t a crime if it was committed against a Vietnamese, a Mere Gook. — Charles R. Anderson, The Grunts, p. 207, 1976
- [A]n endemic, pervasive feeling in the military that wating “mere gooks” was of no great consequence. — Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing, p. 582, 1984
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