> Some people have recently used the terms “Negroes”, “Negroid”, “Negress”, etc. I shared that these are dated and offensive… <
You are, of course, correct. Folks who use those terms are just trying to be cute. Sort of like children in the schoolyard who use slight variations of vulgar words to insult someone. “Puck you,” for example.
Side point #1. Yes, sticks and stones…etc. I suppose that could be a thread all on its own.
Side point #2. We are all guests here at Free Republic. We really ought not post anything that brings disrepute to the site. And I’m sure lib’s from Democratic Underground, etc. occasionally lurk here, just to catch FR being “racist”, or whatever.
When I was young, Negro and negroid were the polite and correct terms for the common more vulgar terms frequently used. That stuck with me and see no reason to be fashionable.
Have you looked at the etymology of those words? You make it offensive because of your feelings. Words have actual historical meanings.
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