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If you use the word "slaps" you're not talking to the population as a whole, you're talking to specific people. And likely ones who already agree with your point.
Slammed!
BLASTS
Are you saying black people should use white vernacular when advocating for their equality?
Non-slang is not "white", or even American. Drag should understand the difficulty caused when drag invents terminology that needs to be explained to any outgroup who can't be expected to be familiar with words drag has only popularised recently. Doesn't drag think that if anything it's kind of exclusionary against second-language speakers?
Drag doesn't believe in slang. All words used to be "slang". It's meaningless.
If drag recognise there's a transition between slang and non-slang so that one "used to" be the other, then slang both exists and the term isn't meaningless. That's without going into actual linguistically, where even the most descriptivist layabout would acknowledge the existence and indeed value of slang.