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Greta75 -> RE: Hate speech or free speech or both? (5/16/2014 10:10:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
The white guy lied to you.
But Wikipedia says it is true! At one point of time, that word was not derogatory but simply a factual word to describe a specific race. So he said at one point of time, black people were okay with it. He said it started with Negro, then Nigger, and then later African American.
Among Anglophones, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, because it then denoted "black-skinned", a common Anglophone usage.[4] Nineteenth-century English (language) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e.g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897). Moreover, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain created characters who used the word as contemporary usage. Twain, in the autobiographic book Life on the Mississippi (1883), used the term within quotes, indicating reported usage, but used the term "negro" when speaking in his own narrative persona.[5]
During the fur trade of the early 1800s to the late 1840s in the Western United States, the word was spelled "niggur", and is often recorded in literature of the time. George Fredrick Ruxton often included the word as part of the "mountain man" lexicon, did not indicate that the word was pejorative at the time. "Niggur" was evidently similar to the modern use of dude, or guy. This passage from Ruxton's Life in the Far West illustrates a common use of the word in spoken form—the speaker here referring to himself: "Travler, marm, this niggur's no travler; I ar' a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!"[6] It was not used as a term exclusively for blacks among mountain men during this period, as Indians, Mexicans, and Frenchmen and Anglos alike could be a "niggur".[7]
By the 1900s, nigger had become a pejorative word. In its stead, the term colored became the mainstream alternative to negro and its derived terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger
So there was a progression where "nigger" was once simply a word like, "Africans". Until today, it's seen as an insult.
LOL!!! First time I see CollarMe Censor words!! Wow! Anyway, the **** is the N word. So you have to type it in replacement of the **** in the wikipedia link.
Testing Gook! Ahh can't use the N word but okay for the G word. How about Wetback? Wow! That's acceptable too! The N word is really heavy duty huh?
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