It’s been in use since the 16th century by English speakers. Basically it was just an anglicization of the Spanish or Portuguese negro. At the time it was seen as neutral by white folk, but it’s also always been tied to slavery, so definitely not neutral from the pov of the slaves.
So did its use imply a power imbalance? Yes. Did the white folk who used it early on know? Maybe…?
I guess it’s similar to using “Indian” to describe New World Native peoples. It’s always been tied to expansionism and genocide, but from the pov of the oppressor that connotation isn’t readily recognized.
Hm yeah, responding from my Piefed.ca account now and I see the actual link on here. I know the filter is built into Lemmy but I definitely remember Lemmy.ca having it disabled in the past :/
Language doesn’t come up from planned academic consensus, it comes from common use. If there were more people using the Spanish then French word negro because that’s the cultural environment these people came from and where they used it, and the accent gradually changed the word to something more unique, then that’s what the new word is. Wikipedia says that process took 200 years. They ended with that word and not another word because they were not using that other word before, simple as.
Back from this rabbit hole and brought gifts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger
It’s been in use since the 16th century by English speakers. Basically it was just an anglicization of the Spanish or Portuguese negro. At the time it was seen as neutral by white folk, but it’s also always been tied to slavery, so definitely not neutral from the pov of the slaves.
So did its use imply a power imbalance? Yes. Did the white folk who used it early on know? Maybe…?
I guess it’s similar to using “Indian” to describe New World Native peoples. It’s always been tied to expansionism and genocide, but from the pov of the oppressor that connotation isn’t readily recognized.
what kind of scunthorpe is this
I’m just glad I didn’t get banned for answering a question with references
Looks like the link you provided takes you to a removed entry
Strange, I can see the article, it’s not removed for me.
Weirdly it is on Lemmy.ca though. This is what I see in Voyager
That looks like lemmy.ca word filtering.
Hm yeah, responding from my Piefed.ca account now and I see the actual link on here. I know the filter is built into Lemmy but I definitely remember Lemmy.ca having it disabled in the past :/
I have accounts on both piefed.ca and lemmy.ca and the word is not removed for me on either account, so it must be the client.
I use Voyager on instance reddthat.com and no “removed” appears for me, but I turned off the Voyager NSFW filter, maybe it’s that.
same, can see it
alright did i fall for a prank here or something
Yeah. The word in question is in the URL, but the commenter didn’t want to include that word in the post. You’ll have to add that part in yourself.
I think their lemmy instance removed it from their post
Possibly. I didn’t know that was a thing.
It’s not removed from my post. Seems like some of your readers or federated instances are filtering that word out for you.
Probably yours, I can see it just fine
It just kind of seems wierd out of all the word to choose out of Latin they chose this. Like why didn’t they pick something like Peddico?
English history is full of “that foreign word sounds sexy so let’s make a version of it”
just say it outloud, “let’s lynch some peddico’s”…sounds ridiculous. would never catch on
Language doesn’t come up from planned academic consensus, it comes from common use. If there were more people using the Spanish then French word negro because that’s the cultural environment these people came from and where they used it, and the accent gradually changed the word to something more unique, then that’s what the new word is. Wikipedia says that process took 200 years. They ended with that word and not another word because they were not using that other word before, simple as.