Please add this word to the banned words list
the term isn’t reappropriatable, and there’s no real reason to not just come up with a different way to refer to the cia. we can come up with something else. the only reasonable manner the term is used in a normal meaning would be like “this guy spooked me” as if you got frightened.
he term isn’t reappropriatable
There’s no “reappropriation” here because the term’s normal, harmless meanings have already been established for centuries. I’m not going to stop using a normal word because some racists also used that word in a different way several decades ago and never since.
fruit is something that refers to a major food group, a term that can get used in every day life. spooked literally the only normal harmless meaning is to be frightened which can also be replaced with scared. there is no reason to be insensitive about this subject except to be argumentative and stubborn.
and you can just say ghost. if we need a cool term to refer to the feds, we can just come up with something, or there’s others. just even referring to them here, we put plenty of negative emphasis on their presence, we don’t need to be insensitive to people who don’t want to see a term that could make them remember some fucked up shit that happened in their past and calls back to an extremely negative time in history. i don’t get why we have people be insensitive about this shit.
