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This is an indicator of the bubble you're living in. It may be common vernacular amongst all or nearly all of the people you interact with, but it is simultaneously highly disrespectful. It might be worth taking a step back and asking yourself what other things you consider normal might actually be disrespectful.

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A more plausible explanation is that there is a cultural difference. Things must be taken in context, and every culture has words or thoughts that seem demeaning to another culture, but they were not intended to be. As an example, compare the use of the N word between a group of black people and a non-black group of people.

Its rather arrogant to simply proclaim someone is living a bubble and that everyone should agree with you that certain words are disrespectful. Perhaps you should take a step back and ask yourself if you're the one whose in a bubble.

The fact that you see it as disrespectful is just as indicative of the bubble you live in. Everybody has one, and your statement has not been proven to have value outside of your own.

I agree with the part about everybody being in their own bubble (and I find my comment that you replied to rather cringe-y now in its implication otherwise), but I'm not sure about the part where my statement has not "proven to have value" outside my own bubble. I'm not totally sure what that means, but from my perspective, it is valuable to know when the things you say are disrespectful to a different set of people than the ones you usually interact with.

That was more in reference to "but it is simultaneously highly disrespectful" as if it were a universal truism. It isn't.

Fair enough. I meant "many people simultaneously feel it is disrespectful to them".

the more language- and thought-policing you try to push, the more of a right-wing backlash (i.e. trump) you will see from the public at large.

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