Activists are complaining about the Merriam Webster definition
of the " most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English " -
the word " nigger ". They say the dictionary fails the political
correctness test because the word is " a racial slur ,not a noun ".
I learned in elementary school how the science of grammar classifies
words - nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs.. . Do the political correct
wish to re-write the rules of grammar ?
I suggest that the over-sensitive black scholars campaign first
of all to get black people themselves from calling one another " nigger ".
Nowadays I hear the word most frequently on black lips. I just read in
the Providence Journal the other day how strange we " crackers " find
this self-derision.
Also it is a simple fact that people in the habit of consulting
dictionaries for the precise definition of words appreciate the
English language, and avoid vulgarities in their everyday conversation.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary is INNOCENT of promoting racism ,
even unintentionally .
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