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WTF? Star trek casually normalizing the n word?
@lugal I mean it's not *quite* THE n-word, although it's commonly discouraged, outside of the UNCF. in lincoln's time, it would have probably been seen as genteel. especially compared to whatever words Johnny Rebs would have used.
Isn't it just the female version? Like actor/ actress. It's dated now but I guess in the 60s it wasn't.
So it's even anachronistic for Lincoln to think it's a slur word.
In Lincoln's time, 'Negress' would have been the genteel term. It was still fairly common in the 1960s, as was Jewess.
Look up "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" for a discussion of the fight to change the term from 'Negro' to 'Black.'