Contemporary speech has taken to overusing the word toxic to describe almost anything off-putting. Toxic is secondarily defined as “very harmful or unpleasant in a pervasive or insidious way”, and is used today (especially by our youth) to demonize everything they disagree with or choose not to tolerate.
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