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Lanzol 07/05/20 10:57:59 PM #1: |
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Irony 07/05/20 10:58:43 PM #2: |
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General_Secura 07/05/20 11:05:15 PM #3: |
The word blackmail is variously derived from the word for tribute (in modern terms, protection racket) paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. The "mail" part of blackmail derives from Middle English male, "rent, tribute". This tribute was paid in goods or labour (reditus nigri, or "blackmail"); the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi, or "white rent" (denoting payment by silver). An alternative version is that rents in the Borders were often paid in produce of the land, called "greenmail" ('green rent'), suggesting "blackmail" as a counterpart paid perforce to the reivers. Alternatively, Mackay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blathaich pronounced (the th silent) bla-ich (to protect) and mal (tribute, payment). He notes that the practice was common in the Scottish Highlands as well as the Borders. In Irish Gaelic, the term cos dubh, meaning "black-rent" has also been employed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#Etymology It's not even a racially motivated term. Are they really trying to make it to that non-black people just can't use the word black any more? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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legendary_zell 07/05/20 11:08:18 PM #4: |
This is not the end of racial oppression I ordered online.
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Lanzol 07/05/20 11:15:36 PM #5: |
General_Secura posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#Etymology Noted racial studies professor confirms his claim that saying blackmail has certain connotations in certain areas ... Copied to Clipboard!
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