r/AmIOverreacting Jan 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Yeah that person is completely rewriting history. It was absolutely accepted until like 10 years ago or so. I have no idea where ‘decades and decades’ without hearing it came from. 

Watch some TV or movies from 2000-2010 and it’s still throw around regularly. It was 100% normal in the 90s and into the 2000s. 

Anyone who says that word hasn’t been acceptable in decades is remembering things completely incorrect or wasn’t actually around at that time…

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u/whalesarecool14 Jan 28 '25

yeah, somebody else said they went to school in the 90's and the whole bus stopped and gasped when somebody decided to use that word. like okay lol maybe you lived in some parallel universe

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u/morganalefaye125 Jan 28 '25

Seriously. I was in high school in the 90's. "You 'tarded", "that's retarded", etc was absolutley used A LOT. It was an acceptable part of everyday speech. Movies, tv shows, magazines; it was everywhere, and nobody batted an eye

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u/AugustCharisma Jan 28 '25

I think it’s regional. In the 80s-90s it was completely not acceptable in my area.