Timeline for Offensive Language for sorta-sound-similar words?
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| Aug 26, 2020 at 6:29 | history | edited | Draken | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @user91988 that was over 20 years ago, and it was his fellow council members who did it. We weren't nearly as hypersensitive back then. I still refuse to be. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | user91988 | @Old_Lamplighter Ah, I'm not familiar with the incident, but that one I can at least understand. Politicians should know better—the general public doesn't know that word and (obviously) heard it as the n-word. He shouldn't have been fired, but that's the world we live in unfortunately. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @user91988 a councelman was fired for saying "we must be niggardly with the public funds". It was back in the 1990s. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:26 | comment | added | user91988 | @MasonWheeler I don't, I've just read it in books. Not all of us are so reactive to pop culture. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 20:25 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @MasonWheeler that's what made me think of that word, yes I remember that vividly. . It's also an old saying "The devil is a niggard", which in turn is the inspiration for the phrase, "when you shake hand with the devil, count your fingers" | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | "The word niggardly means miserly." Do you remember the incident in the late 90s that added that word to everyone's vocabulary? | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 15:09 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @You'rebadandshouldfeelbad I grew up in a time where the rule was still "sticks and stones", and I grew up with multiple disabilities and other problems that made me a target for all sorts of insults. These "first world problems" are so far beneath my radar, they don't even register. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 14:10 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | Some people enjoy being offended to the point that they wake up and are offended nobody offended them. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 15:40 | history | edited | Old_Lamplighter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 13:34 | history | answered | Old_Lamplighter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |