Got some more info on that? The suffix certainly far predates modern (mid to late 1800s) eugenics. Did the Greeks use it to describe some ancient eugenics movement I’m not aware of? It’s root eidos is a common word—not to mention, newton discussed oblate spheroids in the 17th century.
Good point. I was just curious if this was another instance of modern science borrowing from the eugenics movement. I don’t want people to think I was trying to defend the use of -oid or something.
I’ll not use -oid anymore, but I’m curious what your concern is. I can take a guess though.
The -oid suffix comes from eugenics, I don’t think it can be divorced from this because it was made specifically to denote race.
Got some more info on that? The suffix certainly far predates modern (mid to late 1800s) eugenics. Did the Greeks use it to describe some ancient eugenics movement I’m not aware of? It’s root eidos is a common word—not to mention, newton discussed oblate spheroids in the 17th century.
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So, a comprador or other (neo)colonial bootlicker.
Good point. I was just curious if this was another instance of modern science borrowing from the eugenics movement. I don’t want people to think I was trying to defend the use of -oid or something.
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Is this a new rule? The term westoid gets thrown around a lot here.
It’s not a rule, just something I try to notice and notify people on.
Edit: technically it would be a rule under rule 1, no bigotry, but we don’t really enforce it in this case.