Of course everything is racist in 2020. Yesterday the BBC apologised for playing an old song from the 1940s, which had this word in it. I had never come across this term before. Not in the UK. As a dark skinned person of color myself. I would not have taken offense to someone calling me a 'Darkie', as it does not have any racist history as far as i know? Does this word have a racist history in the US? I have queued the song to the point where 'Darkie' is being used. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-playing-song-containing-racist-slur-BBC.html
I have heard of this term being used as an offensive slur in England for many years along with Paki for anyone who is Indian or from those surrounding countries....
A slur is subjective. You can call anyone whatever you want, its our first amendment right. Blacks call white people whitey and white boy all the time and thats a slur but i can care less. Darky is ok to say if you want, its a word.
blacks call a group of white people "a blizzard" they call white girls "snow flake" not that i care, just don't call me late for dinner.
A slur is not subjective. Whether you consider the slur insulting is subjective. But a slur is just a word that is used, mostly in a negative manner, to brand a group of people who are the same ethnicity. You can call an Irish guy a "mick". That's just a word that was short for "Michael". You can call an Italian a "whop". There are hundreds of slurs that are in hundreds of languages - each culture has them for people they want to slur. That's the whole point. They aren't subjective. Whether someone finds it insulting is the subjective part.