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My own country has been occupied by foreign forces so hard that it stopped existing for 100 years. It nearly erased our culture and lots of people died. Should I now start telling people that using the word "occupied" in places like "occupied toilet" or "occupation" to mean employment is somehow offensive to me?

Or maybe should I realize that as a literate adult, I have the ability to understand context around the words that are used?



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