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[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world -3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

"at the world's inception" should have clued you in on the jest...

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

author of that comment here, hi. wasn’t joking. if you say that word expect to be perceived as racist. there’s a lot of people here with varying degrees of patience trying to help you through this you should consider listening to them.

also: *word’s

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh then read the Wikipedia page you referenced. It actually gives examples supporting my statement.

And once again, I am not saying it isn't racist today or that people weren't racist back then or that the word is OK today or any of the other weird things people keep acting like I said.

I lost my patience with people being willfully ignorant a while ago. I just thought it was an interesting moment in time to see how language evolved. Not terribly dissimilar to many other terms people used to use that later morphed into slurs.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Keep defending your racist grandma.