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Don't want to sound like the PC police but personally I would have chosen another verb for the title. The origins of the word "denigrate" are not particularly g
by brunorsini 12y ago
Don't want to sound like the PC police but personally I would have chosen another verb for the title. The origins of the word "denigrate" are not particularly great:
1520s, from Latin denigratus, past participle of denigrare "to blacken, defame," from de- "completely" (see de-) + nigr-, stem of niger "black" (see Negro).
(source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=denigrate http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...)
- bglazer 12y agoIt's not an explicitly racist term. Just like "blacklist" or the "pot calling the kettle black". Black has a negative connotation that is separate from race. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/209021/is-denigrate-a-racist-word http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/209021/is-denigra...
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoSo many, many linguistic troubles descend from some blind idiots deciding to call pink and brown people "white" and "black," and subsequent assumptions that all white/black color metaphors must therefore be racial.