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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called "reappropriation", and there are words in other groups, such as the LGBT community, which are only considered "acceptable" when used by members of the in-group.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/pc-and-reclaimed-words/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair, my only issue is clearly determining what makes someone a member of the group. I guess for LGBT it's more clearly defined, but it becomes a lot harder to determine if you're from X ethnicity or if you belong to Y culture (or I guess the hard part is to make people accept you in their club..)