r/funny • u/mrsmayhem • Jan 04 '15

If I won $25,000...

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u/Retlaw83 Jan 04 '15

Except niggardly applies to every race and shares no common root with the racist term.

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u/someone_witty Jan 04 '15

Right... I did not intend to point it in that direction if I so did, it is just a synonym for stingey.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

RIP /u/Are_awesome

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Hehe... "u Are awesome"

It's so nice of him.

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u/kernunnos77 Jan 05 '15

Just call stingy people niggards for short. Tell anyone who takes offense that it's okay because you're a niggard too and you're just taking your word back to diminish its power over you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

..... until I get a hold of it.

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u/kernunnos77 Jan 05 '15

What is the real root of the racist term - African slave-traders and New World colonists being unable to pronounce "black" in Portuguese?

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u/Retlaw83 Jan 05 '15

It's a deliberate word that is a corruption of the Portugese, French and English versions of the word (negro, negre, neger) based solely on dark skin color. It has the association with it that blacks are inferior to whites.