And I need younger people especially to understand that as recently as a decade ago this was basically the entire country’s attitude (and still is in many places, though the volume has gone down)https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1407417513726648322 …
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by the mid-'90s though hardly anyone went to "queer" as their first-choice insult anymore, and "f*g" got much more popular. then people would use "queer" sort of sideways, to "get away" with saying a "bad word" and then pretend "no, I just meant 'strange'!"
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the same dodge every generation of high school students discovers with "niggardly", after they read Hamlet for the first time.
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absolute same (north shore), although of course it sounded like “quah”
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ah, you mean "(nowath shawh)"
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