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Meriadoc  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dealing with the euphemism treadmill?

It's never been hard. The things that are insulting now have always been insulting. We're just more aware of the fact that they're slurs now. The internet makes more opinions well known, and previously oppressed people now have a platform to speak. "Faggot" was never okay, society as a whole just finally got around to deciding to listen to LGBT people and hearing them for the first time. And then conservatives rage on about how they can't even say what they want because of "PC culture", when it reality they're just finally getting called out and suffering consequences of saying the garbage they've been saying for years.