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i don't lose anything by not saying that, and i avoid potentially being offensive to someone. not really excessive in my eyes.
i disagree. it's quite some effort to police yourself for uncommon words that aren't slurs in your own dialect compared to the odds of perpetuating harm.
or maybe i have an undiagnosed language processing difficulty.
fair enough. i don't use that word anyway. i wouldn't expect anyone else to do that, but personally i am just going to, not do that
I looked it up, it's a slur for an aboriginal group in Pacific Canada. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chugach
So for anyone in North America they are not very far away.
Edit: They also had a settlement in modern Alaska that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1964, and US Chugach National Forest and Alaska's Chugach State Park are named after them.
i submit that alaska/pacific canada is very far away from most of north america. anything north of vancouver might as well be the moon.
"chug" is an onomatopoeia for the noise a mechanical engine makes, which is what chugging a drink from a bottle often sounds like. it has nothing etymologically to do with the Chugach people. "nip [that] in the bud" contains an anti-asian slur... except it doesn't because that's not how words work. Those potatoes are removed potatoes for perfectly appropriate reasons even if the too-longstanding football team name still makes my eye twitch occasionally.
that's not carte blanche to be a 13 year old who found a certain synonym for greedy in a thesaurus, but neither is that what Roger Miller sang about, or what the single-serving milk brand was doing, or what anyone outside of a tiny geographic area means.
That becoming removed potatoes is really funny
I square pegged so many slurs into that before it became clear what they meant.
ah, gotcha. interesting