• @JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    84 months ago

    The only equivalent I can think of starts with k and is a slur for Jewish people, and it’s much less commonly heard.

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      Ironically enough, that word was coined by Jewish people who had been in the US for generations to describe newly-arrived Jews from Eastern Europe. Still offensive but somewhat different from the n-word.

      • Juniper (she/her) 🫐
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        34 months ago

        “Savages”, "Redskins”, “Squaw”, and so on.

        Some news headlines even refer to the second one as “the R-word”:

        CNN: The terrible R-word that football needed to lose

        Politico: The R-Word Is Even Worse Than You Think

        These are extremely harmful words with hundreds of years of genocide behind them. I imagine the only reason they aren’t censored like the N-word is is because Native Americans make up a proportionally smaller population due to the effectiveness of the genocide, and because the reservation system is in contrast to racial integration as with American black people in so much as it limits interactions between them and racist whites who would overuse a dehumanizing phrase to the same extent.