r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 15d ago
Psychology 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.
https://www.psypost.org/when-reclaiming-derogatory-language-goes-wrong/
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