Sure. My point is that this is not what an euphemisms is. An euphemism is a mild word substituted for what you'd consider a harsh word. What you're describing

Sure. My point is that this is not what an euphemisms is. An euphemism is a mild word substituted for what you'd consider a harsh word. What you're describing is the use of a harsh word to reference a specific thing that is frowned upon by sole group and they don't want to use a too loaded word to protect themselves from being labeled bigots or whatnot. Consider this: A blind person can be called visually impaired. That's an euphemism. There do exist visually impaired people who are not blind. Technically a blind person is also visually impaired. Calling a blind person visually impaired is a way to soften the language. On the other hand, if every time you say "visually impaired" you only mean "blind" and all the non-blind people that are nevertheless visually impaired you no longer call them visually impaired, then that's no longer an euphemism, but the word just changed the meaning (as words do, often through the mechanism of euphemisms). For examples "odour" is not an euphemism nowadays, although when the word got borrowed from french it was