It doesn’t really cut anymore. Anytime there is a disagreement people like you start screaming that the other party is some sort of bigot. Those words are so watered down now that they don’t mean squat to well-adjusted people.
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ITs always been a negative word, it used to be used as an insult in the 90’s only recently is it considered not.
I said that here
It was started as a slur against the native indian population of the americas.
Is that what people like me do, eh? Idk i don’t know anybody that takes that word seriously, I think you may have me confused with somebody else, since granted the circles all overlap a little bit. I’m still not wrong =3
This little guy says hi.
The word gay arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.
In English, the word’s primary meaning was “joyful”, “carefree”, “bright and showy”, and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature.
While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 19th century, that meaning became increasingly common by the mid-20th century. In modern English, gay has come to be used as an adjective, and as a noun, referring to the community, practices and cultures associated with homosexuality. In the 1960s, gay became the word favored by homosexual men to describe their sexual orientation. By the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex, although it is more commonly used to refer specifically to men.
At about the same time, it became a new slur used in some parts of the world. Among younger speakers, the word has a meaning ranging from derision (e.g., equivalent to ‘rubbish’ or ‘stupid’) to a light-hearted mockery or ridicule (e.g., equivalent to ‘weak’, ‘unmanly’, or ‘lame’). The extent to which these usages still retain connotations of homosexuality has been debated and harshly criticized.
Semantic change is how language changes or evolves regarding the word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. In diachronic (or historical) linguistics, semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word. Every word has a variety of senses and connotations, which can be added, removed, or altered over time, often to the extent that cognates across space and time have very different meanings.
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Around the 70s is when they also adopted the position to decriminalize all the sorts of activities that people currently think are indecent to do with children, too.
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That’s why there’s a lot of “ists” and “phobes” talk. Or even “traitor” if you happen to be a part of said group but disagree with their narrative.
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We are all, you and me
We are all living in the future
We can’t get stuff
Cause boats are late
And nobody’s working in the future
They don’t serve tostadas anymore at Taco Bell
Welcome to the future
In the future
We are living in the future
In the future
We’re living in the future
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Can you elaborate on that?
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Tldr.
Gay means happy and attracted to same sex now. Words change. I don’t care about the history.
Nice c/p or chatgpt tho.
These commercials are why I will never stop saying that. I make sure I add extra venom to it too.
My point is that word can be taken from its original meaning than repurpose for another meaning. Even a positive word can become a slur if used over and over in that form.
And negative connotations will always stay even if you try to bring it back.
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Your description of your grandmother basically describes my grandmother, who I loved very much but was also an unapologetic racist.
I avoided her when she was watching fox news, and I avoided any conversation that would get her riled up. Nothing I could have said was going to change her, all I could do was not carry her beliefs forward.
mostly just saying - I get what you were saying.
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Well I mean context matters
If the words you say are
“Hey I think I might be”, it would not be offensive
But
“God I really hate” would be offensive
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and after all of this, we STILL don’t know exactly how the OP used what word.
We know, because OP hasn’t come back to clarify that they were roleplaying as a Victorian schoolgirl at the time.
Its not very funny though if it is. 
California company and they are gonna moderate that way. You wont change the way they do things. Sadly its gonna get even worse when the next generation shows up with their rules about speech.
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Eh, it wouldn’t bother a lot of people whom aren’t racist because it’d essentially be a non-sequitur.
If it’s bothering someone, it’s generally because they are mad you are calling them out on their behavior, rather than them being called a racist.
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My point is why even call someone that, unless it is what you believe and have factual evidence.