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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, don't people remember words like dyke, queer, even redneck are taken over by people who had been taunted with them? It's called reappropriation. Even "Obamacare" used to be a taunt until the administration reappropriated it. Here's Wikipedia on the subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation The N word has been reappropriated by AAs. That's why it's ok for them to say it about one another but not white people. They've taken it back to take the sting out of it.[/quote] Agreed. That said, the history of language development says that, eventually, the word will evolve again and, if it survives in usage (unclear if this one would), could eventually lose the intensity and cultural-reality of the meaning. Over time, language evolves and, sometimes, even the most heinous expressions or words can morph into something altogether different. Granted, this type of language change happens over hundreds and hundreds of years.[/quote]
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