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I heard the same logic from a poetry slammer once, who argued Germans should just go around and greet everyone with “Heil Hitler” and take the phrase away from Neonazis (and therefore taking away its power).
I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it, but if it angers a Nazi, I could be up for it.
The problem there is the phrase only has one meaning. It will always mean something along the lines of praise Hitler.
Queer on the other hand has had several meaning and most of it's history means abnormal or different than what is considered normal.
@liontigerwings Reclaiming it gives another meaning, at least in the theory of reclaiming.
The difference with the "Heil hitler" prase, is that it identifies the speaker as a nazi-sympathizer. Slurs serve to describe those spoken about/to.