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"this Term Was Invented By A Bigot, Stop Using It" Can We Please STOP Tracking Everything In Our Society

"this term was invented by a bigot, stop using it" can we please STOP tracking everything in our society back to its origin and after finding out the origin is horrible, declaring the thing itself horrible? Like, no, the person on the street using a term that you can trace back to the abuse of minorities has NOTHING TO DO with those origins, and no, they will still not have anything to do with it if they keep using language as it exists today instead of digging through historical anecdotes all day long to determine what language people can and cannot use. If there's not enough connection nowadays between the cultural context around a term and the one it had when it originated to have practical meaning, just... Stop being an asshole to people about it. I'm not saying stop analyzing how language interacts with culture, just PLEASE stop acting like that principle is a rule of morality you get to enforce on other people.

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