Oh, come on. Your last sentence is correct, but "exotic" certainly has connotations that people have issues with before Twitter was invented: https://en.wikipe

Oh, come on. Your last sentence is correct, but "exotic" certainly has connotations that people have issues with before Twitter was invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_fetishism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_fetishism Merely saying something is exotic (if someone had) isn't equivalent to all the stuff on those pages, but it has those associations.