This article starts so promisingly and then falls over and rolls in bullshit https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/troubling-origin-of-common-slang-words-think-twice/12268132">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020...

There are so many slang words that Gary could have argued to take out of common parlance a whole lot of ableist ones for starters.
Munter - without showing his research, Gary claims that the English word comes from an Afrikaans slur. It might, but wiktionary doesn& #39;t have any info

Pidgin English - no complaints there. We shouldn& #39;t make fun of people learning new languages and English is hard.
Stan - I had no idea where this came from myself, and am too old to know how to use it properly
Woke - hard agree on the appropriation of AAVE

Which brings us to queer... and this thread says it all, so I& #39;m not going to repeat it. Use queer carefully. It& #39;s an ok umbrella term but some people still struggle with it. Also, queer is not a fucking slang word anymore Gary https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1264331209167044609">https://twitter.com/dynamicsy...