Steve QJ
1 min readNov 22, 2021

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It always amazes me when people state things that aren't true with such confidence 😅

But thank you, it had never occured to me to investigate when the word first appeared. In case you're interested, it was actually first used in 1902 by a man named Richard Henry Pratt to talk about the evils of segregation:

"Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism."

So if anybody is "insulingly" trying to take a word out of it's vocbulary, it's you.

As for the rest of what you've written here, I'm sorry, I'm genuinely not trying to be rude, but I can't figure out what you're trying to say. I wasn't trying to make anything a competition, though if there was an "immense compliment", I did indeed miss it.

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Steve QJ
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