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    Technically I have none idea what Iam talking about…

    I did find this

    We have often been told by correspondents that at some time “removed” meant an ignorant or shiftless person of any race. We have no evidence in our files of citations (a citation being simply an example of an English word in context) that “removed” is used with such a meaning. If you have actual evidence of this, especially in print, we would be very glad to have you pass it along. Please remember that a dictionary cannot assign meanings to words; it can only record the meanings that people actually use. We do not believe that we would be doing anything positive about racism by removing the entries for “removed” and other offensive words from the dictionary.

    https://americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/octxx97316.html

    So I mean I guess theses some history but what exactly that is I don’t know.

    Leaving my ignorance up, … Oops

    Technically the word’s definition is a “shiftless individual” which a bunch of racists seems to this was appropriate to call people they were enslaving. Scumbags.

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      Technically the word’s definition is a “shiftless individual” which a bunch of racists seems to this was appropriate to call people they were enslaving. Scumbags.

      Yeah no, you’ve got it backwards. They made that up much later for plausible deniability

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        Son of a bitch…I’m incorrect

        We have often been told by correspondents that at some time “removed” meant an ignorant or shiftless person of any race. We have no evidence in our files of citations (a citation being simply an example of an English word in context) that “removed” is used with such a meaning. If you have actual evidence of this, especially in print, we would be very glad to have you pass it along. Please remember that a dictionary cannot assign meanings to words; it can only record the meanings that people actually use. We do not believe that we would be doing anything positive about racism by removing the entries for “removed” and other offensive words from the dictionary.

        https://americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/octxx97316.html

        So I mean I guess theses some history but what exactly that is I don’t know.