On Nov. 30, during the meeting Democracy and Anti-racist Awareness in Electoral Justice, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) launched the booklet "Racist Expressions: why avoid them".
According to the organ, the purpose of the manual is to list words and expressions to be banned from the Brazilian vocabulary under the justification that the terms would be offensive to black people.
Words such as "enlighten", "slave", "half-ass" and "nega maluca", as well as expressions such as "done on the thighs", were pointed out as liable to exclusion.
In several cases, the booklet suggests different hypotheses that could support the . . .
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