Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?

Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

✓ quite offensive ✓ not a slur X you probably still shouldn’t use it

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