Is there a concept like eggcorn but for assuming term origins that are problematic but invalid? Like assuming a black/white reference is to race when it originates from say night/day or something? Or like the controversy over ‘niggardly’
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There is the Scunthorpe problem in automated spam/profanity filtering: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorp
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‘Folk etymology’ comes close but probably isn’t very useful in a sociopolitical context.
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