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Topic: What is your position on the word "niggardly"?

Metæ started this discussion 11 years ago #44,580

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
Poll option Votes Percentage Graph
It should not be used because while etymologically unrelated to the racial slur, it could be misinterpreted as such. 2 22%
Niggardly? It's not even related to that other word! Political correctness gone mad. 7 78%
I don't care, frankly, I was drinking Sierra Mist when I read the title of your post. - 0%

kook !!b4KbSydQS joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later[^] [v] #588,683

I think that the controversy surrounding it was embarrasing.

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #588,686

Unserious fraud beverage deteced.

dw joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 27 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #588,688

I would not use that word in daily conversation.

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #588,689

@previous (dw)
what about weekly conversation?

hater !JGlOo5d1iU joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #588,692

> At a February 1999 meeting of the Faculty Senate, Amelia Rideau, a junior English major and vice chairwoman of the Black Student Union told the group how a professor teaching Chaucer had used the word niggardly. She later said she was unaware of the related Washington, D.C. controversy that came to light just the week before. She said the professor continued to use the word even after she told him that she was offended. "I was in tears, shaking," she told the faculty. "It's not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid."[10]

Omg, an early SJW.

Lol, I don't think ignorance is a valid reason to be offended. I think black people need to open a fucking book.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 17 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #588,704

It's a fag word that people who read literature are familiar with, but no normal person talks like that. At best, the speaker is a show-off fag for speaking out loud the Bronte or Shakespeare or whatever the fuck book has fag words like that.

hater !JGlOo5d1iU replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #588,707

@previous (F)
Which bronte? I loved wuthering heights.

Anonymous F replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #588,709

@previous (hater !JGlOo5d1iU)
shit I don't know lol
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