You know, some years ago on Skins's island, cousin nadin pointed out that one of the most common tactics of humiliating people was by giving the impression they were less than human--turning menschen into untermenschen--"human" into "sub-human"--and she said that in the context of franksolich's contrivance of "primitives" to describe the freaks and oddities that make up the membership of Skins's island.
The cousin was right; I'd purposely invented the term when we were all still at our old home, circa 11-12 years ago, to suggest precisely that.
It's a degrading term, and meant to be degrading. But one can't blame me for that; the primitives by their own attitudes and conduct showed themselves thusly, and one should call something by what it is.
Surely the sparkling old dude, for example, doesn't expect to be described as a cosmopolite, rather than what he really is, or our good friend Atman as an intellectuel--don't make me snort and laugh.
