Keith&Co.
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Well, so was the term, "niggardly," used properly in a conversation about budgets.If the original title was published today regardless of content it would immediately be denounced as racists.
People just suck.
When did the term niggardly become associated with race? I must have overlooked that memo.
It isn't. It wasn't. A guy used it and people reacted. Medua blew up.
Scholars insisted the word had no racial connotations. People still demanded an apology... for their ignorance, and their willful adherence to that ignorance in the face of dictionaries, linguists, etc.
People really suck.