Do you guys think it's advisable to use such terms coined by extremely extreme communist revolutionaries?

https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/racist

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
    hexbear
    25
    1 month ago

    That etymology isn't even true. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/racist_n?tl=true

    https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/05/260006815/the-ugly-fascinating-history-of-the-word-racism

    OED has two separate possible origins, neither one of which has any connection to Trotsky.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    10
    1 month ago

    the word 'Racist' was first coined by the communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky

    WTF I hate racists even more now