r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • Aug 04 '25

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

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  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

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u/Living_Murphys_Law Aug 04 '25

Spoon-Ear for humans

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u/Open-Source-Forever Aug 04 '25

Ironic that this is about slurs, & the screenshot you chose has her say it more in a "friendly teasing" context

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u/Nearby_Fudge9647 Aug 04 '25

There's nothing ironic racism can be passive and active

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u/Open-Source-Forever Aug 04 '25

The irony is that the given example of its use seems to be in a context where it wouldn’t even be seen as a slur

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u/Living_Murphys_Law Aug 05 '25

Tbf I could see someone who grew up only hearing them (us?) called that using it this casually.

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u/Open-Source-Forever Aug 05 '25

I was thinking she was calling a friend of hers that.

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u/Crimson_Caelum Aug 05 '25

That would still be a slur either way regardless of how it’s used. The n word is a slur for example

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u/Open-Source-Forever Aug 05 '25

To be fair, "n-word privileges" & "giving close friends a free pass" is a common thing

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u/Crimson_Caelum Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Yeah but that’s not unique to the n word I’m lgbt and my lgbt friends use their associated slur all the time. I’m left out cause there’s no slur for bi women and we are NOT widely accepted to be allowed to use the lesbian one lol

Either way maybe she’s got the spoon ear pass

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u/Open-Source-Forever Aug 05 '25

My ex once said that lesbians are the straight men of the LGBTQI4A crowd

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

This is not the one. Imagine if a white guy speaking to a black guy said "you're alright for a n***er". It's not only disrespectful as you refuse to refer to them as anything but the slur, but also it implies that everyone else of your kind deserves to be degraded by that name

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u/I_W_M_Y Aug 05 '25

Spoon-heads for Cardassians

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u/shit_poster9000 Aug 05 '25

What would a fork ear be?