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who cares about what words meant in the 1930s? especially considering the modern abuse of language as a rhetorical device.
by rzl777 4y ago
who cares about what words meant in the 1930s? especially considering the modern abuse of language as a rhetorical device.
- simonh 4y agoAs I explained, it's been in use since the 1930s and is still widely used in the black community in the US in the same sense today. The sense in which raspberry1337 used it was, precisely, abuse of language as a rhetorical device. Probably not deliberately, hence I tried to explain the historical and current cultural context.