On 2020-06-21 at 12:53, deloptes wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >> Wrong. "Nigger" (a corruption of negro) was only used by whites >> and always had derogatory connotations. "Black" originated with >> blacks and has no derogatory connotations (except as used by racist >> whites who would say "nigger" if they could get away with it). It >> is what blacks I know call themselves. "African-american", on the >> other hand, is a euphemism manufactured by liberal whites. > > Nigger because they were mostly brought from Nigeria, no? No. https://www.etymonline.com/word/nigger (As it happens, I do also dislike the push to try to change the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist", for reasons more linguistic than anything else I've managed to even half-articulate. Despite that, I find the positions and arguments you've been expressing in this thread to be significantly more objectionable than that push itself, and I think that if anything you're doing the "cause" of opposing such a change considerably more harm than good; I might sooner concede that fight than join forces with such arguments to try to win it.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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