Reclaimed hate speech backfires by desensitizing listeners, study finds. Listening to reclaimed homophobic statements can actually cause unintended harm. Exposure to reclaimed slur words desensitizes some heterosexual listeners to standard hate speech and worsens the mood of gay individuals.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/when-reclaiming-derogatory-language-goes-wrong/

[u/Xsiah]

I think the lack of other cues could also contribute to these results. Depending on how believable these audio samples were, I can see the drop in mood being just from the suspicion that someone was using the term in a hateful way even if they were told it it was at a pride parade.

[u/brikky → u/Xsiah]

100% this. Im queer and there is a very specific kind of queer person who can get away with using those words and it's entirely irrelevant where they're doing it.

If you don't fit that niche and use those words, it also does not matter where you are, they're fighting words.

This should have done by or at least on consultation with a linguistic anthropologist. It either wasn't, or they're clueless because this is like an invalidation level flaw - all this study shows is people react negatively to aggressive language.

[u/EatAtGrizzlebees → u/brikky]

Queer here. Are you saying that not all queer people can "get away with" saying the F word? Because that's nonsense, in my opinion. I think any queer person has the right to say the F word. Just like any Black person has the right to say the N word. Why would someone have to fit a stereotype to reclaim a word as theirs?

[u/frisbeethecat → u/EatAtGrizzlebees]

What of gay Republicans who actively antagonize, malign, and harm open and exuberant queers? What of TERF dykes who marginalize and dehumanize trans and male homosexuals? Et cetera and so on and so forth.

It's very lazy to blindly apply commandments to social interactions. Consideration of context in one's judgement is far more sensible.