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What perfectly normal words/phrases have been ruined for you because of bigotry? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I'll start: "Shoving x down our throats"

the amount of people who have told me i'm one of the good ones because "at least you don't shove gayness down our throats," or "i'm fine with it if they dont shove it down our throats" has made me cringe whenever i hear that phrase used in any context, even harmlessly. how about you guys?

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

i disagree. it's quite some effort to police yourself for uncommon words that aren't slurs in your own dialect compared to the odds of perpetuating harm.

or maybe i have an undiagnosed language processing difficulty.

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