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by DoreenMichele 2145 days ago
It's a thing because there's a pandemic and another Black guy was murdered by police -- George Floyd. Because of the pandemic, people reacted uncharacteristically and raised hell instead of our usual reaction of sort of shrugging and making excuses.

So a lot of different things are being impacted by our uncharacteristic willingness to take action about systemic racism, including use of language.