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I think getting rid of the terms would justify those who have made them negative.
i.e. "well if you think gay is a negative word we'll just stop everyone from using it." gives the bigots and assholes far too much power to shape our language. I think some people are running around trying to give negative connotations to words so that they can then use those words to offend/insult people who's only crime is being themselves. I don't think we should give these idiots the dignity of paying any attention to what they say or think by altering our own language to avoid those words. I think that would be playing into their hands, and hasn't our society done that enough?
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