Why Are Slurs Suddenly ‘Cool’ Again?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Each week we are greeted with new flash photos of Young Republicans celebrating, Trump government rulings, and regressive Conservatives embracing their right to say slurs as often as they can. But why are our left leaning peers, Oscar winning movies and Twitter pals using the R word so casually too?
This week, hosts Ione and Gina dissect the politics of language, the pendulum swing to being anti-Woke and why everyone feeling apathetic about the impact of slurs needs to take a good, long, hard look at themselves.
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| 1:13.6 | spotify deborah says this is about last week's podcast surrogacy there's been such a good episode they all |
| 1:18.9 | are but i really agree with the points made here which is very lovely and then obviously juna's put this |
| 1:24.1 | one in by megs when gina saidardly, I nearly spat out my drink. |
| 1:28.2 | Def are a word that needs to be used more facts. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.5 | Thanks, Meggs. |
| 1:33.6 | Thanks. |
| 1:34.6 | So, Gina, what are we talking about today? |
| 1:37.0 | Today we're talking about how the conversation around reclaiming slurs and also the way that everyone is saying one specific |
| 1:45.7 | slur. No, I think, let me stop you there. It's not even reclaiming slurs. I think there's |
| 1:51.3 | two separate, like some people, like I don't know why it's called reclaiming slurs because it's |
| 1:55.8 | not reclaiming at all. It's just like people picking slurs back up again that um have been like out of fashion for years |
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