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Wait, what? Mar. 30th, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
OK, now at some point I need to study the etymology of the word "nigger".

Because I just came across it being used in 1839 to describe working class white, British men. Which, wow, there's got to be a lot of complicated implications in that, or else everything I thought I knew about it was wrong.

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