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Originally Posted by haertig
Oh, OK. I did not pick up on that. So she was not claiming the the word "hysterical" is racist ... rather, the word "racist" is racist.
Which it kind of is, given how it is used and thrown around these days.
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It's gotten to the point that I'm wonder if you're being deliberately obtuse. The analogy was that if you had used a racist word, and I (hypothetically in this scenario being in a group that word had been used to target) had objected and explained why it was racist, and you had tried to overrule me and issue a detemination that indeed the word had in fact not been racist, would you then see the problem with that dynamic.
I have a feeling you wouldn't, though, so perhaps the analogy was falling on fallow ground.
Meanwhile: some alternative suggestions (that also don't fall into the ableist realm): histrionic, overwrought, overreacting, hyperbolic, frenzied, exaggeration-prone