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Old 03-04-2015, 02:03 PM   #253 (permalink)
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Negroid is a racial slur. I really hope and pray the Batlord was joking with that....
But it's not necessarily a racial slur. I think it's been replaced with "congoid", but I'm pretty sure that's purely a name change just so it doesn't sound offensive, and therefore means the exact same thing. If you want to interpret negroid as racist then I can't do anything about that, but that doesn't mean you get to judge others for not sharing your particular views on language.
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