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Sorry, not from the US; Is "Black" a racist term no matter the context?

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• Enginerrrd 4y ago
  No.
• stevenjgarner 4y ago
  "Because most people who got the plague died, and many often had blackened tissue due to gangrene, bubonic plague was called the Black Death." [1] [1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21590-bubonic-plague https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21590-bubonic...
• marcodiego 4y ago
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• refurb 4y ago
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• cperciva 4y ago
  Not necessarily, but a common style recommendation is "avoid using the word 'black' to refer to anything negative or harmful" -- not because it is racist but because it might be misconstrued as such.