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Do you guys think it's advisable to use such terms coined by extremely extreme communist revolutionaries?

https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/racist

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

That etymology isn't even true. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/racist_n?tl=true

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/05/260006815/the-ugly-fascinating-history-of-the-word-racism

OED has two separate possible origins, neither one of which has any connection to Trotsky.