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0 pointsfierarul5y ago0 comments

Such a silly choice. If some people really hate a group won't the new self designated word become a racial slur too? What then?

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You get what is commonly known as the "euphemism cycle", or the "euphemism treadmill": https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087798

Gypsy was always a slur. It's not a case of a euphemism treadmill.

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