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the word 'racist' is used so often for so many non-racist things it's really losing all meaning for me. I bet in a few years they'll have squeezed all the power out of it and will move onto a different term. What's the plausible runner up?

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would you say the same thing about the word sexist?

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To a lesser extent yes. I don't think it's been weaponized in the same way but I do think it's been overused and weakened.

12:31 AM · Aug 7, 2020

I somewhat disagree

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I think you even asked a question lately--abt women crossing the street if they saw a man?--where the responses were divided over whether it meant specifically and negatively prejudiced or simply that it involved treating the sexes differently.