Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 months agoI’m a native pt speaker and I had never thought of the word as slur. I remember it being commonly said on TV, music, and written on newspapers.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah, in Portuguese it is not a big deal. (I’m also a native speaker.) Some people do complain about it, but it’s typically based on etymology, not current usage.
Dunno how others interpret it but for me “mestiço” isn’t quite an alternative, it’s more like a hyperonym for any person with mixed heritage (not just Afro+Euro).
0x0@programming.dev 3 months ago
It’s an Olympic sport nowadays.