I really don't like it at all and I think it does have negative effects. It serves to enhance negative and often incorrect sterotypes and I think it's important to make an effort to avoid using language like that.
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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan
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