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This feels like white people wanting to say the n-word
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Imagine imagining an entire fictional race of people just to hate them and come up with slurs for them.
Am I the only one to find it weird to great your friends with a slur ?
that depends on a friend tbh
it's a x/millennial thing.
Also black and gay
I mean, yeah...but they are still x/millennials. regardless of gender, race, or creed.
Idk, I hear it quite often among those groups much younger than x/millennial
I suppose you would, much like how x/millennials still use "bud", "dude", "awesome", or " far out" in their daily jargon even though their parents or grandparents were the ones that coined the term.
once a term or phrase enters the zeitgeist, it's typically adopted by younger generations.
Millennial here. Nah, maybe in different cultures or circles?
That may explain why I don't urderstand, too young for this
Putting aside the "White people tip-toeing the line of saying the n-word" vibes: Not sure how I feel at the casual implication that different races are analogous to different species... we could just as easily treat different races as different colors of fur.
Races in fiction are usually different species or breeds (as in dog breeds, I guess, not sure if that's the right term), not different skin colors. Like how humans have different skin colors but are all Homo sapiens still, so part of the same human race.
Steed is a slur for horse. Don't @ me