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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
This is not mildly racist. At all. It's not racist in ANY way. And nobody except you has said "this is mildly racist", there are some responses that are straight up "this is disgusting, how racist". And when you call that racist, and also refer to those other acts of ethnic cleansing and systematic oppression as racist YOU ARE EQUATING THEM because THAT'S WHAT USING THE EXACT SAME TERM FOR BOTH DOES.
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No it doesn't, for the millionth time. English is a fluid language.
I can call 50 pounds "heavy," and I can call 50 tons "heavy." That doesn't make them the same weight and that doesn't make them equal. Almost every single word in the English language has multiple usages and room for degrees of severity. That's why we have modifiers in the first place. Stop trying to make "racism" the one word that doesn't follow the rest of the English language. It's never going to happen.