I remember getting some funny looks once in an office environment for using the term 'queer fish.' The meaning is essentially 'an odd person.' When I used it, the older coworkers around me didn't bat an eyelid, but I got some odd looks from the comparatively woke millennials who were present.
How did they get to America, though?
European style stone tools suggest Stone Age people actually discovered America
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archeologists and historians have long known that it wasn’t really Christopher Columbus who discovered America. Native Americans had been living all over North, Central and South America long before he arrived. And Native Americans came from Asia across the frozen-over Bering...phys.org
Here in Bongland a MP decided to talk about a ”nigger in the woodpile” and basically gave the left something to moan about for a month.
Why are you being so autistic? I don't know how they got there, nor does any one else. Maybe it was a UFO dropping them off when they seeded the planet? Just because we don't know how it happened doesn't mean it didn't happen. The earliest evidence we have for humans in the Americas is of European origin. That's a fact.
Asking how white people magically appeared in America is autism now?
It is when you know we don't have an answer to that and you know it. History has holes, do you declare gravity is fake because we don't know how that works either?
I am a resident of Bongland, and remember that. There was similar discussion around the now antiquated term 'niggardly,' which ought to be well known for partisans of period literature. Naturally, the people who complained about admitted not even knowing the definition...
I read Around The World In 80 Days not too long ago. Literally lol'd at the line "...they were served by Negroes of darkest hue."
If that kind of language tickles your fancy, it may be worth checking out the period satire 'Hunderby,' which is chock-full of language based humour like that. It's loosely based on Jane Eyre, with some credulous extra scenes and characters inserted for comic relief.
To be fair, the word ”niggardly”'s main use is winding people up, but there are many times when winding people up is funny.
Blacks are all the same and act and think and react as a monolith, and Whites are the source of all evil in the world.
I capitalize neither because I don't recognize them as proper nouns.
You're supposed to capitalize the race moniker. Black man, White man, Asian man. They're proper adjectives.
