Talk:colonizer

Used as a pejorative in SA

Let us add that it is used as pejorative bordering on hate speech, at least according to South Africa HateSpeech Lexicon 2019_v3:

Why it’s offensive and inflammatory: It is used to attribute historic behavior and incidents to a whole racial group and suggests that this historic behavior is ongoing. It also implies that white people don’t belong in South Africa. As one respondent argued, “It means all white people are colonials and should go back to Europe.”

Same for "Pink Pig", "Umlungu" etc. q.v. Zezen (talk) 22:46, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2022–February 2023

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colonizer

Rfv-sense: "(US, slang, derogatory) A white person." It seems tricky to me to verify usage where this is the specific intended meaning rather than it being used with the intention of its other listed definition ("One who colonizes"), or at least intending to refer to the act of colonizing rather than just to someone being white, but certain people interpreting it to have supposed derogatory meaning. AKiwiDeerPin (talk) 06:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

This seems to have appeared in online usage in the last year or so. Here's one apparent use on Facebook. Some likely uses on Twitter: [1] [2] Probably can find some on TikTok too if anyone is that brave. This, that and the other (talk) 10:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Note that this word is clearly used with this meaning in Marvel's Black Panther movies. My impression was that it was an in-universe term used in Wakanda, but it may have either come from or led to real-world use. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 06:35, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

 Cited. Ioaxxere (talk) 16:05, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

RFV Passed. Ioaxxere (talk) 00:06, 5 February 2023 (UTC)