Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) followed in the president’s footsteps on Monday when he used an anti-trans slur to describe cisgender Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews.

Scott said during an appearance on Real America’s Voice, “Annie Andrews, as President Donald Trump calls her, tr***y Annie, here’s a person who believes, as a pediatrician, for trans surgery, gender surgery for trans kids. That’s wrong. Period,” Scott said.

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[–] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Slurs come about when enough people load up a word with hate to taint it in all contexts. It gains an implication of bigotry

It's a real time process. They're often "politically correct" or preferred terms at first, but over time they are loaded with additional meaning until new preferred terms are chosen and the cycle (usually) repeats

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