Post by Morgana on Apr 5, 2020 9:50:01 GMT
Apr 4, 2020 1:01:49 GMT Admin said:
Indeed. So, this Gandhi thing. I've never heard the word "Kaffirs." Was it considered a racial slur when he said it?
Maybe another KX quote fits here:
"There was a black flag on everything around me and I was walking backwards again."
At the heart of the origin of Kaffir is religious disagreement. The earliest evidence of its usage in English attests that it is used as a noun by Muslims as a pejorative term for a person who does not follow Islam – a use that is both considered offensive and intended to offend. In the earliest individual instance we have found in written English (from 1577) the author, Richard Willes, explains ‘Caffer’ as meaning ‘mysbeleeuer’ (= ‘misbeliever’) and many other instances give similar glosses, such as ‘infidel’ or ‘idolater’. With religious disagreement being at the core of this use, it has not remained restricted to a single geographical area, instead being used in many different parts of the world with Muslim communities. During the 450 or so years that the word has been used in this way it has spread across numerous different regions, including those which are now the countries Egypt, India, and Afghanistan