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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But neither is your skin colour expressed in Latin.

Niger is Latin... Nigger is not.

While I'm generally not sensitive to these things, claiming something that's factually not true as a defense of the word is just not okay. Use the word if you really want to use it. If you use it in any other way other than academically (such as discussing the word in of itself)... don't surprise pikachu when people shun you for it.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nigger is a diminutive (or at least derivative) of negro, is it not?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not according to the etymology. https://www.etymonline.com/word/nigger

1786, earlier neger (1568, Scottish and northern England dialect), negar, negur, from French nègre, from Spanish negro (see Negro).

All of these languages are latin-based languages... So there must be a latin root. If you dig further you find

from Latin nigrum (nominative niger) "black, dark, sable, dusky" (applied to the night sky, a storm, the complexion), figuratively "gloomy, unlucky, bad, wicked,"

So yes negro exists in the middle but not as the source necessarily... It would have evolved (if I read the etymology correctly) as Nigrum -> Niger -> Negro/neger/negar/negur -> Nigger.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Good thing the N word is being censored here, otherwise we might actually learn something.

I fucking hate indiscriminate censorship. In some context the word is important in order to learn and educate

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's your own .world instance that's doing the censorship.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Oh that's good to know and also fucked up, I thought they stopped that censoring bullshit. Thank you for letting me know.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How would I go about to see this post outsife ot my .world? I can't even click the link because it removes it from the URL, this is so fucking stupid.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Click the little multicolored pentagon symbol next to my name.

Should link to https://lemmy.saik0.com/comment/3423797 which is a direct version from my lemmy instance.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah... While admittedly discussions like this one are far outweighed by the negative uses of the term; when discussion is happening where clarity is more relevant than appeasing the euphemism treadmill censorship sucks.

https://lemmy.saik0.com/comment/3423797 should get you to the original version. My instance doesn't censor.