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Originally Posted by MattyC
Here's a note: When shouting in anger/pain ask yourself, "can the word I'm about to use be interpreted as and/or has a historical context of subjectation of an entire group of people? Would this word exist if it was not originally conceived with hate and/or misunderstanding."
If to the answer to that is yes, don't use the word. And if you do, don't be surprised when people get upset about it.
Otherwise I guess we just get to wait for people like you with outdated and backwards thinking to just die out.
A whole group of people grew up with Pluto as a planet. It's not classified as such anymore. Some people still refer to Pluto as a planet. They are wrong. It's not up to interpretation by anyone.
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Your example of something being archaic would be applicable if I were basing this on what people thought 50 years ago, but we're talking polls consistently taken between the 1990s and days/weeks ago.
Of course, the saying that you can't wait for people who don't agree with you to die out is not surprising either, that exemplifies nicely how rational this movement you back is, and why it has resulted in approximately zero changes.