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Clunker really doesn't come close to the cars it referenced though. Not trying to defend it's use, I understand what everyone is talking about here. There really is no good replacement word though, which is frustrating. Like, that entire era of car culture came and went before many of us involved knew the word was racist (or at least before we were mature enough to care).
I know clunker isn't sepcific enough, I was oversimplying for the sake of explaination. The crazy thing about language is that you can use multiple words together to describe complex concepts. Who'd have thunk!
That's true, but we are lazy Americans - if we can't describe something with two syllables or a 4 letter acronym, we give up (or apparently come up with something racist to refer to it instead...)
For the record, I'm not arguing against your points or trying to defend the words use.