re: #222 MinisterO

The word “niggardly” is also tainted beyond repair for the obvious reasons. One may justifiably lament that a legitimate word is off-limits but I avoid it out of sensitivity, not some psychotic sense of political correctness.

I think the word “black” is not allowed to be used in a lot of contexts now, too. Like “black hole.” Some councilman somewhere was reprimanded for saying at a meeting that budget funds were disappearing down a “black hole.” That was taken to be racist.

A “black spot” on one’s record. The bad guy wearing a “black hat.” A “black cat” being scary. A “black sheep” being disreputable. “Black clouds” foreboding ill. All of it insensitive at the very least.