>>5883I used to be neutral on it and in the 1. camp but watching how people have talked about 'uygha' my whole life and the emergence of the whole 'dark woke' thing has made me unironically think the "reclamation" of slurs isn't possible. At all. It's never worked and you'll always have low autism score rightoids (frankly, rightfully) asking "well, if [x] group can say it, why can't I?" and your only explanation is tethering us and a new generation of marginalized young people to a past we should be wanting to move forward from.
We should all just admit there's no deeper reason for wanting to say it aside from finding it funny and being lazy, immature and it being a force of habit from our childhood/teen years spent on chan sites rather trying to rationalize or moralize it with some facetious radfem bullshit of pretending it's 'reclaimative' and that you're keeping the scoreboard even.
Look at how 'gay' as a pejorative became so effectively phased out for practically a decade there even amongst children just to come back in large part because retarded catty Stan twitter gay guys and fujos couldn't stop being homophobic to each other while fighting over Nicki Minaj or fanfiction or Taylor Swift or whatever the fuck else, or how every 2nd post on social media these days is full of people calling each other retards.
Slur reclamation and 'dark woke' as a whole has done absolutely nothing for the progressives except made it slightly more okay to admit to liking Cum Town and Chapo around women. We gave away our ability to say to the next generation of politically curious teenagers coming up online now that "we're the side who isn't ableist/body-shaming/sexist/homophobic/sex negative/transphobic and don't place the value of others on these restrictive hierarchies" just to give in to those hierarchies for the most braindead short-term gains imaginable.
I could go on about how arguably the only real value the American left has to offer the rest of the world*is* shit like concern over language, hand-wringing over idpol, discussions about representation and shit of that ilk since they're frequently unwilling to do anything more disruptive than that or put themselves at risk to do anything actually helpful to the extent that they're unironically getting shown up by the same libs they scorn in places like Minnesota, but that's a tangent for
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