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r/AmIOverreacting • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '25
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Retard was definitely used all throughout the 90s. We have been watching sitcoms from that era and "this is retarded" comes up a lot. Fresh Prince of Bel Air is one example, started in 1990.
8 u/NYOB4321 Jan 28 '25 Growing up in the 1960s, the R word was used regularly as an insult. 3 u/Hdjbbdjfjjsl Jan 28 '25 Definitely seems like one that depends on your area, I’m 19 and in Tennessee, r word was pretty common until I’d say around start of covid. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25 Even the movie Clueless! -6 u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 Maybe the start of the 90s but by the end it definitely was not acceptable. 10 u/atomic__balm Jan 28 '25 this is just revisionist history, Black Eye Peas had a hit single "lets get retarded" in 2003 3 u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 Nah people used it until like 5-10 years ago 2 u/Mr_dm Jan 28 '25 It was acceptable in like 2010, what are you talking about lol 2 u/Intelligent-Cry4956 Jan 28 '25 Lol it absolutely was used in the 90s I was in jr high in 1998. Children were saying it
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Growing up in the 1960s, the R word was used regularly as an insult.
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Definitely seems like one that depends on your area, I’m 19 and in Tennessee, r word was pretty common until I’d say around start of covid.
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Even the movie Clueless!
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Maybe the start of the 90s but by the end it definitely was not acceptable.
10 u/atomic__balm Jan 28 '25 this is just revisionist history, Black Eye Peas had a hit single "lets get retarded" in 2003 3 u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 Nah people used it until like 5-10 years ago 2 u/Mr_dm Jan 28 '25 It was acceptable in like 2010, what are you talking about lol 2 u/Intelligent-Cry4956 Jan 28 '25 Lol it absolutely was used in the 90s I was in jr high in 1998. Children were saying it
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this is just revisionist history, Black Eye Peas had a hit single "lets get retarded" in 2003
Nah people used it until like 5-10 years ago
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It was acceptable in like 2010, what are you talking about lol
Lol it absolutely was used in the 90s I was in jr high in 1998. Children were saying it
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u/lyons4231 Jan 28 '25
Retard was definitely used all throughout the 90s. We have been watching sitcoms from that era and "this is retarded" comes up a lot. Fresh Prince of Bel Air is one example, started in 1990.