Is 'Darkie' really a racist slur in the US?

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Millionaire

Of course everything is racist in 2020.

Yesterday the BBC apologised for playing an old song from the 1940s, which had this word in it.

I had never come across this term before. Not in the UK.

As a dark skinned person of color myself. I would not have taken offense to someone calling me a 'Darkie', as it does not have any racist history as far as i know?

Does this word have a racist history in the US?

I have queued the song to the point where 'Darkie' is being used.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-playing-song-containing-racist-slur-BBC.html
 
Millionaire said:
Of course everything is racist in 2020.

Yesterday the BBC apologised for playing an old song from the 1940s, which had this word in it.

I had never come across this term before. Not in the UK.

As a dark skinned person of color myself. I would not have taken offense to someone calling me a 'Darkie', as it does not have any racist history as far as i know?

Does this word have a racist history in the US?

I have queued the song to the point where 'Darkie' is being used.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-playing-song-containing-racist-slur-BBC.html
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Source: Google.com

darkie definition - Google Search.png
 
I have heard of this term being used as an offensive slur in England for many years along with Paki for anyone who is Indian or from those surrounding countries....
 
A slur is subjective. You can call anyone whatever you want, its our first amendment right.
Blacks call white people whitey and white boy all the time and thats a slur but i can care less. Darky is ok to say if you want, its a word.
 
Corky5 said:
A slur is subjective. You can call anyone whatever you want, its our first amendment right.
Blacks call white people whitey and white boy all the time and thats a slur but i can care less. Darky is ok to say if you want, its a word.
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A slur is not subjective. Whether you consider the slur insulting is subjective. But a slur is just a word that is used, mostly in a negative manner, to brand a group of people who are the same ethnicity.

You can call an Irish guy a "mick". That's just a word that was short for "Michael". You can call an Italian a "whop". There are hundreds of slurs that are in hundreds of languages - each culture has them for people they want to slur. That's the whole point. They aren't subjective.

Whether someone finds it insulting is the subjective part.
 
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