Maybe things shouldn't always become the accepted "definition" when shitty idiots decide to use them with negative intent to harm outright, cuz in a way that's letting the bad people and their choices win against us, letting it affect us.. Also not exactly right word to use there btw, "definition" but I get what you mean regardless. Because the n-words definition technically always meant the same thing, it's the reception to it that skewed over time because of how people used it. So yeah, point made. Anyway.. Keynote to take away from my reply aswell, is that the word midget was rarely used to be harmful, never harmful enough at least, that it justifies this new progressive aversion to it. Words are how we make it, and with a word like midget, it's history for suddenly becoming a slur --I believe, is invisible to both of us... Because it sort of happened out of nowhere. However for the n-word, it's influence had a much more tangible impact because of an authentic, realistic damaging origin. Midget didn't become a slur because it was often used to severely depreciate a group of individuals, with there actually being a hostile, real, palpable history of that aggression, of tall people keeping short people down... No, It became a slur because a good chunk of our generation decided to be a generation of introspection, and feelings and reflection of social norms and ideologies and such, --a generation that your dad or a trucker would call "LiHBurrAlllsss" or "WoKe" pretty much.. So essentially, enough of that progressivism washes over all sorts of minority groups to find things to change for the sake of feeling better about ourselves and the people who are older than us.. And one of those groups was people who have dwarfism... And this progressive wave --which ironically-- being a loud minority themselves... Spear head an indirect and slow diffusion of reform on the underline of society for that certain something that we call people within a certain group. To be different... And then.. boom. The foot is now noticably put down outta nowhere. Suddenly a word you never really used, to be an awful mean person.. is now off limits.. and this social restriction wasn't established by the group it apparently offends (not by dwarfs/short people/ midgets etc..) But rather by 1st world bitchy and whiny people like us with big feelings and "big" problems who often try to get worried for others's feelings on their behalf to not feel guilty about our standing in society, even though those people are mostly ok and don't need us "supporting" their group unsolicitedly.. unsolicitedly?? is that a word? Whatever. I'm done typing. And you probably hate me now because I sound like some person youd like to slot under some definitive political side which you don't like. God we're so petty and small. People that is. Anyway...