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We already know that "denigrate" and "niggardly" are just racist (they equate the quality of being black with being evil), but we continue using a lot of other insulting words, like "blacklist":
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/03/1 ... st-racist/

lets clean the language and make it more progressive!

Nikita_Sadkov {l Wrote}:We already know that "denigrate" and "niggardly" are just racist (they equate the quality of being black with being evil), but we continue using a lot of other insulting words, like "blacklist":
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/03/1 ... st-racist/

lets clean the language and make it more progressive!

Are you a troll? Denigrate? Really, is that considered racist? Blacklist? C'mon.

It seems like you are wrong about "niggard" too (not that it is a word I had ever heard of nor would ever use either).

charlie {l Wrote}:Are you a troll? Denigrate? Really, is that considered racist? Blacklist? C'mon.

It seems like you are wrong about "niggard" too (not that it is a word I had ever heard of nor would ever use either).

No. I'm not a troll. These words are officially insulting and racist nowadays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controver ... ggardly%22

so racists should watch their mouths, or they can say "good bay" to their jobs.

Nikita_Sadkov {l Wrote}:

charlie {l Wrote}:Are you a troll? Denigrate? Really, is that considered racist? Blacklist? C'mon.

It seems like you are wrong about "niggard" too (not that it is a word I had ever heard of nor would ever use either).

No. I'm not a troll. These words are officially insulting and racist nowadays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controver ... ggardly%22

Yes, you are a troll. You manage to support a claim for niggardly being "officially insulting and racist nowadays" by quoting a Wikipedia article that is named "Controversies about...". If you're so keen on cleaning the English language from all politically incorrect terms, you better start checking the definition of "controversy". It's far from "official".

And the Wikipedia article you quoted just says the same as Charlie's article: "niggardly" comes from Old Norse and has nothing to do with all racist terms derived from the latin negro, black. The only issue with "niggardly" is that is sound similar to "nigger" and that people are ignorant.


Also, this is not a forum for social justice fights IMO, there are place where your troll would be way better welcomed.

Akien {l Wrote}:If you're so keen on cleaning the English language from all politically incorrect terms, you better start checking the definition of "controversy". It's far from "official".

Like it or not, but the language is saying "goodbye" to the bad words. For example, both government agencies and private companies ban the use of word "blacklist"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... acist.html
http://english.stackexchange.com/questi ... -whitelist

so if you are a software developer, it should be okay to avoid word "black" altogether, even in variable names. Using abbreviations like "blk" for "block" should be discouraged as well. I.e. write "symmetric binary B-tree" instead of racially excluding "red-black tree". Otherwise your paper may just fail peer-review, while your github repository can be taken down any minute:
http://gizmodo.com/5980842/there-is-bla ... ithub-code

What planet are you on? Sheesh.

Stop conflating matters. This is not a black and white issue (PUN INTENDED). You go on about things like blacklist and whitelist sounding like a lunatic, then link to a github search for 'nigger'. WTF!?

I'm locking this thread. It should probably be deleted.