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What perfectly normal words/phrases have been ruined for you because of bigotry? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still don't think this one is used enough as a slur to retire. Using it as a slur would make me think you're literally a boomer, it's not common. Using it to refer to feds is more common, and using it to mean "scare" is even more common than that, so it's basically just a normal word

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Using it as a slur would make me think you're literally a boomer

I am old and I've heard it used as a slur in person, but I have seen it used innocently enough by most normal people that it's been like reclaimed.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

less reclaimed and more "the non-slur use is and maybe always has been primary"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am fairly old but I've never heard it used anywhere outside of Back to the Future. I'm also not from the south, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it a south thing? I'm from the north and that's where I heard it used as a slur.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

its definitely kind of a boomer-y slur here in texas, i've heard it more for that than the online fed thing until relatively (2010s) recently