I’m just saying that words have the power they are given by people. If you don’t want to be offended by a special word you then just don’t give it the power to

I’m just saying that words have the power they are given by people. If you don’t want to be offended by a special word you then just don’t give it the power to hurt you. “Queer” is another example. It used to be a slur, gay people decided collectively that they were going to take the word back, and it worked. Go ahead and call someone queer as a slur in San Francisco, it doesn’t really work the same as if you had called someone queer in the Midwest in 1990. It’s not doublethink, it’s a provable phenomenon.