you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Mark_Shill 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

wtf is a negroid? Sounds pretty racist shit to me. GTFO of here with that shit, it's not welcome here

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

As little as I would like to be the word police, I did actually put some thought into whether or not the title addition was appropriate.

From wikipedia: Negroid has both Spanish and Ancient Greek etymological roots. It literally translates as "black resemblance" from the Spanish word negro (black), and Greek οειδές -oeidēs, equivalent to -o- + είδες -eidēs "having the appearance of", derivative of είδος eîdos "appearance". The earliest recorded use of the term "Negroid" came in 1859.

Although it's considered an obsolete racial grouping now, and racist, if Op wants to believe in theories from the 1780s, I don't see how that actually breaks any Saidit rules.