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It has been offensive in the US since the 90s. It just gets used anyway anytime there's some "anti-PC" movement, along with "gay" to mean "bad", the r word, sud
by morelisp 5y ago
It has been offensive in the US since the 90s. It just gets used anyway anytime there's some "anti-PC" movement, along with "gay" to mean "bad", the r word, sudden spikes in the use of "niggardly", and so on. Like those, its offensiveness does not come from offense taken by the person/thing it is proximately describing.