Dlaczego słowo Murzyn jest dziś obraźliwe? Rozważania historyka języka

In the article I discuss development of word Murzyn [eng. Nigger] from earliest times up to present in order prove thesis that word, burdened with bad connotations Middle Ages, is humiliating and offensive today. This evidenced by nineteenth-century uses sense ‘slave, servant’. Today, for many, especially young people, it has lost its original meaning, as synonym words: bambo, bambus [bamboo], asfalt [asphalt], syfiarz [sloven], brudas [slob], złodziej [thief], gangster [gangster], niewolnik [slave], prostak [gaby] associated backwardness, primitiveness, animalization banditry. It used an term depreciation, being often a tool verbal aggression.