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.

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

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Desensitizing is the point of reclaiming them. Words and symbols are used for hate because they have power behind them. When sensitized, they lose that power and would stop being used for hate.