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Has anyone contacted you yet with the explanation of the word "pygmy" and the tremendous harm that you're causing? Wikipedia: >In anthropology, pygmy peoples
by hkai 8y ago
Has anyone contacted you yet with the explanation of the word "pygmy" and the tremendous harm that you're causing?
Wikipedia:
>In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.
- amitt001 8y ago"Tremendous harm" How?
- blechinger 8y agoI imagine the commenter is concerned about the colonial/bigoted connotations that word carries when applied to people groups. Pygmys are a subset of a species whose physical attributes are smaller than the main species. Applying that to people is obviously... Problematic at best. I don't see how reusing the word, given its original use in biology, is directly causing harm. If anything I think it's a clever and decent reclaimation of the word.
- ThrowawayR2 8y agoMay I point out the Wikipedia page listing hundreds of plant and animal species whose names are prefixed with the word "pygmy" to describe their diminutive size? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Pygmy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Pygmy Seems unlikely that those adjectival usages are causing "tremendous harm".