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The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

Someone with mixed African and European ancestry.

Etymologically it's rather nasty: the word was coined in either Spanish or Portuguese as "mulato", as a reference to mules ("mula" - horse x donkey hybrid).

In Portuguese it seems to me that this association faded away. However, I'm going to take a guess and say that the word is probably a slur in English, so not something that you want to use for its meaning.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm a native pt speaker and I had never thought of the word as slur. I remember it being commonly said on TV, music, and written on newspapers without this connotation. It was certainly more common than the preferred alternative "mestiço".

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, in Portuguese it is not a big deal. (I'm also a native speaker.) Some people do complain about it, but it's typically based on etymology, not current usage.

Dunno how others interpret it but for me "mestiço" isn't quite an alternative, it's more like a hyperonym for any person with mixed heritage (not just Afro+Euro).

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Some people do complain about it

It's an Olympic sport nowadays.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's archaic enough that it's probably not a slur, or at least not a particularly bad one. Archer got away with using this as his ringtone.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the info - my guess was wrong then.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

No it wasn't. It's a backwards and weird word.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I've only encountered the use of mulatto once in the wild. My girlfriend my freshman year at college had an adopted brother who was biracial. She used the word mulatto to describe him, but at the time everything she said about him seemed very loving.

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