For what it’s worth, wind is huge in West Texas. And as the article points out solar wasnt doing to bad either l. After the failure of NG to keep the grid up during that cold snap they was supposed to be investments in diversifying our grid.

Our politicians are just dumb. Maybe they thought adding solar power to our grid was DEI.

I grew up in the same culture acceptance of these terms, but I’ve grown to think of it like this. If I wouldn’t say it to the group of people it’s describing, using it to describe other people carries the same meaning.

You can’t separate the term from the group of people it’s offending. So using it as an insult reinforces it’s meaning and acknowledging why it’s offensive. So it’s equally wrong.

It’s the same reason I don’t say the n-word or why I wouldn’t use the derogatory terms used for trans people even in a joke.