Queer has been a reclaimed word for decades and it's 100% true that people who are telling you that it's a slur are doing so in order to indoctrinate and manipulate people for their own ends.
When someone tries to tell you something like 'privileged liberals made everyone believe', they're making an assertion. If they don't give you any evidence to back up that claim, be skeptical of it. You can do your own research and see if they're right or if we're right.
If you do the research on this one, you will see that we are 100% correct.
The LGBTQ+ rights organization Queer Nation was founded in 1990, well after the term was already in common use.
Queer has been reclaimed so successfully that it's a fully accepted term in academia. You can get degrees in queer studies because of the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
One of the classic LGBTQ+ slogans is, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!"
People like the OP have no evidence for any of their claims. Like, seriously, they're honestly claiming that queer people call ourselves queer because of a fucking TED Talk from 2017.
Yeah, right, and I suppose asexual people didn't exist before the year 2000, trans people didn't exist before WW2, and they really are trying to make the fucking frogs gay.
Like, seriously, have you heard a more ridiculous claim than, "privileged liberals made everyone believe its OK to call everyone that cause they watched a Ted talk in 2017"? I mean, it's completely laughable.
Anyways, the people that make these claims are authoritarians in the LGBTQ+ community. They might be radfems, they might be TERFs, they might be some other kind of conservative right-wing type that just thinks they have to control what other people think to feel good about themselves.
Find people who don't tell you that your identity is a slur. Find people who don't try to teach you to hate others. Find people who aren't emotionally stunted children in the bodies of adults.
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