To me, a slur has to have some power behind it to be a slur. It’s like white people saying that cracker is a slur. It can be I guess if it’s class-based (wealthy white people using it to refer to poor rural whites) but it’s practically never used that way, and it’s weaksauce compared to everything that whites can say about POC.
TERFs are just really keen to call themselves something other than what they are, like gender-critical or gender natives (all of my Indigenous friends really appreciate that one) but in this context, their identity is based around hating on an already marginalized and vulnerable group. They may have other identities but this is a term that describes a particular shitty political position.
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Date: 2019-07-26 06:02 pm (UTC)To me, a slur has to have some power behind it to be a slur. It’s like white people saying that cracker is a slur. It can be I guess if it’s class-based (wealthy white people using it to refer to poor rural whites) but it’s practically never used that way, and it’s weaksauce compared to everything that whites can say about POC.
TERFs are just really keen to call themselves something other than what they are, like gender-critical or gender natives (all of my Indigenous friends really appreciate that one) but in this context, their identity is based around hating on an already marginalized and vulnerable group. They may have other identities but this is a term that describes a particular shitty political position.