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Originally Posted by tore
For me, negro is just another way of saying black as that's basically what the word means, just in a different language. I don't attach any malicious ill-meaning to the term. Still, I don't really use it as I've heard some might find it offensive ..
Also, I'm white and from Norway.
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Yeah, just as a word, it's not inherently offensive, but in America, it's culturally
persona non grata. It just has too much history as a slave word. You won't get curb-stomped quite as severely as if you use "nig
ger", but you don't want to throw it out there all willy-nilly either.
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