holymotherofrowling:

saying things like, “words only have what meaning you put into them” as an excuse for why you believe people shouldn’t be offended by slurs is victim blaming at its finest.

I was having this conversation with my dad last night, when I mentioned that I wasn’t going to use the term “grammar Nazi” anymore.  Basically, the upshot was that he didn’t think that phrase was offensive because the word “Nazi” has come into use as a blanket term for someone who’s really strict about whatever they do.  And I was trying to tell him just this; just because some people use the word in a different sense now doesn’t divorce it from its original meaning or its extremely violent history.  And does he think it’s not a bad thing that people started to use it in a casual way in the first place?

I love my dad, but there are some things I don’t think he’ll ever get.

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  6. wethataretruelovers said: Ooh, this shall be my new comeback for when people say it’s fine to throw the word Nazi around like it’s nothing.
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