[David25861]

I agree that racism is built into our language and so discounting eytomology sort of misses the point: why was the latin term to blacken appropriated in a negative light–if not to give legimitacy to institutional racism? But no one knows latin anymore, so the speaker who uses the word denigrate does not intend to invoke any connotations on race. In the past, amongst the educated classes, I doubt this was the case.

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