[9YearLurker]

I can see why you’d call it pejorative—though taking back such pejorative associations has long been an activist approach, but I don’t see why ‘mongrel’ is racist. I think you’ve bought into their oversensitivity.

[Rebelbase]

“but I don’t see why ‘mongrel’ is racist. I think you’ve bought into their oversensitivity.”

Had it been a white politician calling blacks mongrels the uproar would have been nuclear. There’s the racist angle.

[kabar]

mongrel [ˈmʌŋgrəl] n 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a plant or animal, esp a dog, of mixed or unknown breeding; a crossbreed or hybrid 2. (Social Science / Peoples) Derogatory a person of mixed race adj of mixed origin, breeding, character, etc. [from obsolete mong mixture; compare Old English gemong a mingling] mongrelism n mongrelly adj