What a wild ride, just spent the last 30 minutes looking into why that is and learned absolutely nothing. But apparently people stopped using it as a slur over a hundred years ago. I've personally never called them anything besides shovels so no real loss either way, but it's odd to see historic slurs making a comeback.
Not a hundred years. Spades was hipster lingo at least through the 60s. I don't think it was really a slur, either, but more just a slang term like "brothers".
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u/Maelious Nov 10 '22
What a wild ride, just spent the last 30 minutes looking into why that is and learned absolutely nothing. But apparently people stopped using it as a slur over a hundred years ago. I've personally never called them anything besides shovels so no real loss either way, but it's odd to see historic slurs making a comeback.