[nerpderp82]

Not but it has racist connotations, you really want to go out of your way to educate everyone on the etymology of a word because of an antiwoke crusade?

It is the same reason that polite people don't continue to use the word, "niggardly".

[rcoveson]

The word "black" is a thousand times more important to speech than the two syllables that make the word "niggardly" problematic.

White and black, light and darkness, yang and yin, on and off, one and zero. I'll bet that most people that have ever lived understand those parallels. Human melanin concentrations in skin don't enter into it. Attempting to control usage of a word as fundamental and common as "black" is an absurd overreach. It's nothing like "niggardly", which was barely in use anyway and brings to mind the same slur in the minds of just about any American alive today.

[bb88]

Well, it does have it's own wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...

[chimineycricket]

What are the connotations? People don't say niggardly because the pronunciation of the word is literally there. Are you saying people shouldn't say the word "blacklight" because it refers to black? Black is part of blacklight, and on its own does not mean anything racist, unlike the first part of "niggardly".

>you really want to go out of your way to educate everyone on the etymology of a word because of an antiwoke crusade

What's wrong with people voicing their opinion in a debate fashion?

[car_analogy]

Please don't use "crusade" as a negative. The crusades were difficult fights for liberation of various European countries against Muslim colonialism, which had already stolen much of their land and enslaved their people [1,2]. Using them as a negative synonym is very offensive and problematic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

[al_mandi]

Of course the word crusade has a negative connotation. The trails of blood and destruction they left are well known and documented. As per your links, the enslavement that happened were due to war, so the same as what the Europeans did.

[car_analogy]

> The trails of blood and destruction they left are well known and documented.

You're saying Europe should not have retaliated for all the land and people that were stolen? They were at war, under attack for centuries, but if they counter-attack, well that's the worst thing ever, still remembered almost a thousand years later, while the Muslim attacks they were responding to go largely unmentioned. It's bizarre.

[al_mandi]

What provoked the Muslim attacks, and how did the Muslims treat the local population compared to the chaos and destruction left by the Crusades? Islam has rules of engagement, which prohibits the atrocities committed by the Crusades and the Mongols

[rajman187]

The etymology of niggard, “nigon,” is entirely unrelated to the racial slur which derived from “negro/nègre” in Latin languages meaning black. It’s just an extreme case due to the racial slur being contained in the spelling of the word.

[antiRadical]

> it has racist connotations

Come on, everybody knows this is not true.