Revolution cannibalizing its own dep't: The T-word was a routine ingroup self-descriptor twenty years ago. People using their own word for themselves - it's not like they're lost to history, it was the goddamned nineties - are now guilty of a horrible slur against...themselves.https://twitter.com/OldRoberts953/status/1135835274745978881 …
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Replying to @St_Rev
it's a pretty different thing to have this word flung at us from outside, though. most slurs sort of work this way. there's a big difference between ingroup self-deprecation and outgroup mockery.
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Replying to @ROPMOTHER @St_Rev
it's true that some former slurs, like "queer" , get consecrated for general use. but it doesn't follow that every slur has been. these conventions might seem arbitrary, but that doesn't make them socially insignificant.
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The term in question has never been very well received from outside the in-group. Also, reading the latter portion of his comments in that post, he appears to take exactly the semi-hostile position that most of us correctly identify with its usage among the nons.
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