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It is the absolute truth. If you want to deny that a young white woman is treated differently then say, a middle age black man, you are not being honest. If in 2020 we are talking about the legal system the most important question is the race and gender of the defendant.

Although frosh refers to a first-year student and has a resemblance to fresh, freshman is not believed to be the source of the word. More likely, frosh is from the dialectic German word for a frog, Frosch. ... Students already had a slang term for freshman, the diminutive freshie.