Are you advocating that we throw out perfectly good words that have been in use sometimes for hundreds of years - inoffensively and in their own right - because someone in the past century appropriated all or part of said words to advance their own offensive agendas? Rather than advocating that people take the step of educating themselves about what words mean before dropping them from their lexicon - and not dropping it if it turns out the cigar is just a cigar?
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Date: 2010-07-05 05:25 am (UTC)