When I was a child in the 1950's, --yes I'm that old--, everyone said 'nigger.' I don't remember feeling that the word itself was actually derogatory or negative in any way towards them, it was merely used as a descriptive term. There were good niggers and bad niggers, just like with any other group of people. The people who actually did hold a prejudice against them seemed to be the ones who referred to them as 'coloreds.' Then I remember when the media (TV and newspapers, back then) started up the language-changing business in the "civil rights movement" of the sixties. (((They))) wanted us to say "black" (nobody I knew ever called a negro person black before that.) Not long after that (((they))) wanted us to say "gay" (nobody I knew ever called a homosexual person gay before that.) And it went on from there...
The days when gay meant happy like in many older songs and movies.
Yep. Having a "gay affair" meant nothing more than participating in something enjoyable. lol
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