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Originally Posted by Loki
Bobo, all due respect, but
**** that noise. There are words I grew up with that I understood to mean different things that I no longer use in those ways because if what said words mean now to other people.
This is essentially the “its nbd when grandma still calls black people slaves, she’s from a different time!” argument. It’s not rocket surgery to learn a new meaning for a word, it’s quite possibly the simplest thing I could imagine doing.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people who grew up being taught not to use racial slurs, who chastise older folk that grew up being taught it was okay to use those slurs and still do, that pat themselves on the back for not using those specific slurs but then ball when someone tries to educate them on how something else is now considered offensive. Language doesn’t stop with you. You are no different than the old person in this example, refusing to learn and stop being offensive. (You generally, not you specifically bobo)
You misunderstand me; I probably could have been clearer with my post.
I'm not talking about why any one person would be unable to make the change. What I'm saying is that a societal change is more difficult when the meaning of the word has evolved. It's actually the opposite of your last paragraph - in this case, the use of the word has changed from a very specific slur to a broader meaning that for most people, no longer has the connotation it once did. That doesn't mean we shouldn't make an effort to stop using it; I'm just pointing out that it won't be as obvious to people that there's a problem as there should be with blackface, for example.
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Originally Posted by H0RUS
The hate is real and has to be exposed.
Feel free to forward me the PM.