“Mulatto” is also an Italian word, it means the same thing. As someone already said up in the thread, nobody uses it as a slur, but I didn’t know about its etymology. I still won’t judge anyone that uses it, but I can understand how someone might not feel ok with being addressed with that word
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Binette@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I thought it was French holy hell
riccardo@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It is also French, but it means claw
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
It’s also German but it means grips