[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...