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I had a shower thought driven by recent events: is the N-word a slur?
-It has a tremendous amount of historical context, but has been grossly separated from that. -Hearing it can be a call to violent action. -Some identify with it, some don't. Who it's used on often doesn't match and it generates considerable offense.
I'm of course referring to Nazi.
I wonder if introducing a taboo here is part of whatever would be required to drop the temperature.
I saw a meme yesterday that was along the lines of "They have called you racist many times, but never called you wrong"
Anyway my gripe with being called a Nazi is that the people that use that word barely know what Nazi means. And usually those are people that claim to have intellectual or moral superiority. Or they know and play stupid when using it improperly - which is even worse.
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