Removed, not because the word itself is inherently offensive, it's not. It's because the people who use it over "begrudgingly", "stingy", or "miserly" never do it out of good faith.
"The words niggard and niggardly are etymologically unrelated to the highly offensive and inflammatory racial slur euphemistically referred to as the N-word, despite the words' visual and auditory resemblance to it. Because of that resemblance, however, both niggard and niggardly are often taken to be offensive."
I use the word, specifically to point-out that it's UNrelated to the n-word.
WHEN we kowtow to disinformation,
THEN we are accommodating disinformation's rule.
Fight it tooth & nail, ever mm of the way.
Ideological disinformation, national-narcissism disinformation, historical disinformation, linguistic disinformation, Scientism's disinformation & other pseudoscientific disinformation, ALL of it.