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They're not using it directly .. they're part of a wider society that has been using it less and less explicitily for hundreds of years - children speak as their paerents do.

What has faded is the habit of exactly breaking down the bloodlines of anyone of mixed blood - mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, hexadecaroon and such terms are no longer in common use in this epoch.

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So your theory is that the people who seem to center their worldview on racial equality (along with equality of the sexes) are subconsciously using racist language?

I mean, that’s possible, but I think a more plausible explanation is that the bulk of them are just getting riled up by media and aren’t really paying close attention to what’s going on.

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> So your theory is ...

No. That's clearly your framing - don't draw me into your strawman.

> but I think a more plausible explanation is that

Or, that a majority people in the USofA that are described as black in the USofA have embraced that term, own it, and have used Black Twitter etc. while those adjacent to them ( the "progressives" ? ) use that term as for the most part the "black people" are comfortable with and haven't told them to bugger off and stop using it.

As happened with "ginger" and "nagger".

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I find your positions to logically incoherent and I’m having a hard time understanding. Based on my personal experience I believe this is a you thing and not a me thing, but I can never be sure. Have a good day!