I’ve heard this sentiment that it is immoral a lot on the internet, and I would like to hear more about it. It feels intuitively correct to me, but I would like to hear the reasoning behind it.

Examples to further the title's meaning

• Calling someone ‘queer’ to mean they are weird, but not in a way intended as disparaging to those who are LGBT(Q+).

Not Examples

• Calling someone ‘queer’ to mean they are within the group known as LGBT(Q+). (or in any other neutral/positive tone)
• Calling someone ‘queer’ to mean they are weird, in a way intended to attack and/or disparage the LGBT(Q+) community.
• Calling someone ‘queer’ to mean they are weird, and you say you do not intend it negatively towards the LGBT(Q+) community, but you secretly do mean it negatively. (This is not intended as referring to anyone in particular /srs)

Discussion questions:

• How does this factor into meanings of words fading away?
• • Does it still pack the same “punch” after it no longer is commonly used as a pejorative?
• • • If not, at what point is it generally considered okay to use?
• How does this differ/compare with reclamation?

Some potential reasoning that I've thought of on my own, feel free to discuss.

• Bad actors can piggyback off of the use as a negative to help condemn the original target group.
• It may directly harm the group, by them (also knowing the original context) coming into contact with it and causing/enabling self-hate.
• • This may apply irregardless of if they know it was intended as non-disparaging to them or not, but this is just speculation based off of my similar experiences.

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I apologize for any personal bias within this comment, I tried my best to limit it but I am fallible.

Though I would like a discussion in the comments, please refrain from insults and inflammatory statements towards your fellow lemmings, despite the hot topic. /srs