• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Just… Shut the fuck up.

    it was the era of racial chattel slavery and your dumbass is pretending it wasn’t a slur, that every interaction between the slavers and black people wasn’t an attack.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      It literally was not a slur. You are trying to burnish your progressive bonafides way too hard. Word meanings change over time.

      As you mentioned, there was actual slavery happening at the time. Being called a “negro” was the last thing a slave would worry about. They wouldn’t even identify as that, because they would consider themselves Ashanti or Igbo or some other West African ethnic group. It’d be like calling you “North American” (I assume).

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      MLK junior literally refers to himself and other black people as “The Negro” repeatedly in his “I have a dream” speech, if you still want to imagine that it was a slur then you’re simply deluded.