I'll start: "Shoving x down our throats"
the amount of people who have told me i'm one of the good ones because "at least you don't shove gayness down our throats," or "i'm fine with it if they dont shove it down our throats" has made me cringe whenever i hear that phrase used in any context, even harmlessly. how about you guys?
I am old and I've heard it used as a slur in person, but I have seen it used innocently enough by most normal people that it's been like reclaimed.
less reclaimed and more "the non-slur use is and maybe always has been primary"
I am fairly old but I've never heard it used anywhere outside of Back to the Future. I'm also not from the south, though.
Is it a south thing? I'm from the north and that's where I heard it used as a slur.
its definitely kind of a boomer-y slur here in texas, i've heard it more for that than the online fed thing until relatively (2010s) recently