[Dig1t]

I’m just saying that words have the power they are given by people. If you don’t want to be offended by a special word you then just don’t give it the power to hurt you.

“Queer” is another example. It used to be a slur, gay people decided collectively that they were going to take the word back, and it worked. Go ahead and call someone queer as a slur in San Francisco, it doesn’t really work the same as if you had called someone queer in the Midwest in 1990.

It’s not doublethink, it’s a provable phenomenon.

[xundb]

Not a great example, as many gay people, including myself, still consider it to be a slur.

Many of the people who have supposedly took it back and use it to describe themselves aren't even gay.