I tried to think of the dutch word for ‘maroon’ recently, you know the societies built by escaped slaves in the new world, and the dutch phrase I remembered was forrest-[n-word]. And theres no way thats still used.

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    russian is very not woke. Nouns have gender and verbs in the past tense do as well, so good luck being nonbinary. I suppose you could try using neuter but thats also what phobes do to dehumanize and I feel iffy trying to reclaim it.

    kazakh is a lot better since theres only third person pronoun and gender does not exist as a grammatical category. Everyones nonbinary by default!

    Also like the other comment said a lot of woke words are just imported from english. Some are understood by a wider audience, but most only if ur in the know.