2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Democrat. Democratic. Whatever. [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)Telling someone that the use of "Democrat" as an adjective is a slur is not correcting their grammar. It is informing them of something they appear to be unaware of. Indeed, in a case like this, it is more condescending not to say anything and let the person go around offending people without even realizing it than to point out that the use of the word "Democrat" as an adjective was invented by Republicans as a way of being disrespectful of the Democratic Party and is considered offensive by a large number of Democrats.
If a friend of yours from another country used the n-word, not realizing that it is extremely offensive to a large number of people, would you not correct them? Would you let them use that word because those who are offended by that word should just get over themselves?
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