• Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    That’s really interesting, I guess my perspective is shaped by my material conditions niko-dunk

    Lmao but genuinely that’s really interesting. Admittedly this thread is the first time I’ve heard it’s not pecieved in the same way which says to me I’ve fallen for a British (but positioning itself as the “International community”) position so it’s given me some things to think about as hearing its being weaponised by reactionaries makes me feel the ick now.

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      1 year ago

      Likewise, i’m feeling kinda icky because my previous opinion towards the term kind of brushed over the trauma queer elders had to endure. Because it originally wasn’t the international term it is now, it was something that gay people abroad probably knew about, but definitely not something your average bigot in a rural central-European village yelled at you when he thought your pants where too fancy to make him feel secure in his fragile masculinity. So i was under the impression that people still alive today just had no direct, hurtful experience with it like with other slurs.

      • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        We live and learn. I still find myself having to catch myself in situations where maybe its better to just use the full acronym to not trigger anyone.