Or what did they use before the N word? I can kinda get Mexicans using Negro for black coloring but it takes a different connotation across the border.
The definition of the N word is “a shiftless individual” which I mean, I sure as hell wouldn’t be excited to work for nothing as a slave… The association with African Americans is just due to racist assholes.
Yeah I addressed being incorrect yesterday in this thread, but here you go
We have often been told by correspondents that at some time “removed” meant an ignorant or shiftless person of any race. We have no evidence in our files of citations (a citation being simply an example of an English word in context) that “removed” is used with such a meaning. If you have actual evidence of this, especially in print, we would be very glad to have you pass it along. Please remember that a dictionary cannot assign meanings to words; it can only record the meanings that people actually use. We do not believe that we would be doing anything positive about racism by removing the entries for “removed” and other offensive words from the dictionary.
Or what did they use before the N word? I can kinda get Mexicans using Negro for black coloring but it takes a different connotation across the border.
What?
Its just like calling a black person black in another language right?
I’m now getting reminded of the Americans who call all black people “African American”. No matter where they live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rT19i3jvOQ
The definition of the N word is “a shiftless individual” which I mean, I sure as hell wouldn’t be excited to work for nothing as a slave… The association with African Americans is just due to racist assholes.
Wrong. Stop repeating bullshit attempts at sanitizing it.
Yeah I addressed being incorrect yesterday in this thread, but here you go
We have often been told by correspondents that at some time “removed” meant an ignorant or shiftless person of any race. We have no evidence in our files of citations (a citation being simply an example of an English word in context) that “removed” is used with such a meaning. If you have actual evidence of this, especially in print, we would be very glad to have you pass it along. Please remember that a dictionary cannot assign meanings to words; it can only record the meanings that people actually use. We do not believe that we would be doing anything positive about racism by removing the entries for “removed” and other offensive words from the dictionary.
https://americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/octxx97316.html
So I mean I guess theses some history but what exactly that is I don’t know.