• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    That doesn’t seem to be a reclaiming of a word (since it wasn’t previously used in a good way), but a reuse of a historically insulting term. I can respect the effort, but I still cringe when hearing it used as an amiable word. I don’t know if that makes me racist because I have trouble moving past it being a slur and distasteful. Maybe it’s still too new and it’s going to take a few generations to become more normalized.

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      2 months ago

      “Reclaim” is still the term we use for that, even though just “claim” or “seize” might be more fitting. See also

      homophobic slur

      removed

      which some LGBT+ people use in an almost tongue-in-cheek way to refer to themselves and each other, as a way to invert and defang the hostility with which it is used by bigots.

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        2 months ago

        Huh, your slur got removed. Didn’t realize World did that, thought it was just ml or something.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah, that was news to me, I wasn’t sure if it was just my client. I’m not complaining - but I’ve been half-expecting an automatic ban!