I was wildly confused by the origins they gave for the word. My grandmother’s been saying, “What a simp” for as long as I can remember and there’s no way she learned it from Mid-90's rap or any exposure to somebody with skin darker than milk. 

In so much as Leprosy has a huge Stigma attached. But if a person has leprosy it's about the same as calling a cancer patient a cancer patient. The truth.