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How to react if a person calls you "degenerate"
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No decent person would use the word degenerate. Just don't interact if you can
Unless it's a consensual sex thing
I know a fairly large number of amazing people who use the word degenerate somewhat frequently. That said, they are all definitely degenerates and proud of it.
Reclamation is totally fine of course
It's not even reclamation. It's literally just using the word for its primary definition:
Sure but the n word also has a non offensive primary definition in some countries, now most people agree it is offensive regardless
I may not be a decent person, but I do have a discord channel called The Department of Degeneracy where we post dark, spicy, and doomer memes that would make grandma gasp and clutch her pearls.