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Wilshire@lemmy.world to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago

White Woman Explains Why As An Anti-Racist Ally She Refuses To Say Any Word That Starts With 'N' | The Onion

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Wilshire@lemmy.world to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago
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Kelsey Porter used to think that, as a white woman, her acceptance of other races absolved her of racism, until she realized that not being racist wasn’t eno...
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    Reminds me of the sordid history of the word “niggardly” (which means cheap/stingy).

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      And apparently has nothing to do with the word “nigger”. I think the word was used in my translation of The Twelve Caesars and I had to look it up. Turns out there’s a whole Wikipedia article on it

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly

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        Nah dude Suetonius was just mad racist

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          Suetonius dropping hard r before it was even invented. He was just that sort of guy

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