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143: Racial Terms
Can offensive terms be reclaimed by the people they've been applied to? Or are some words best left alone? In a related issue, sports teams are facing pressure to change their racially-charged names. Should they? Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at some touchy issues on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Can offensive terms be reclaimed by the people they've been applied to? Or are some words best left alone? In a related issue, sports teams are facing pressure to change their racially-charged names. Should they? Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at some touchy issues on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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