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The word fa***t predates it’s use as a slur for homosexuals, but I don’t think anybody reasonable would argue that it’s not commonly perceived as an offensive t
by 542458 5y ago
The word fa***t predates it’s use as a slur for homosexuals, but I don’t think anybody reasonable would argue that it’s not commonly perceived as an offensive term. These are obviously different degrees of subjective “offensiveness”, but my point is that people don’t sit down and work out the etymology before deciding if something makes them feel bad.
- peoplefromibiza 5y agomaster has never been a slur, it was never meant to mean insult, it is an honorific title. A "glass masters of Murano" makes beautiful art with glass, because he's a master in that craft. Doesn't matter if the word has been distorted to mean something bad for a brief period of human history. Slave is the offending word, not master. We should have master branch or master database, but secondary branch and secondary database, instead of "slave" ones.
- blueflow 5y agoI call my ex-bf sometimes faggot, and he laughs because he knows well that *I* have zero grounds to call *HIM* that. And given the stuff that was between us, i don't get why i should let other people tell us whether we should be offended by that word or not.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoSnowflake is an insulting term for overly sensitive SJWs... but it's also a word for an actual snowflake. No matter how offensive it is to someone, we still need a word for literal snowflakes falling from the clouds.
- slantyyz 5y agoIt's also used to describe a shape. For example, a "snowflake" schema.