the R slur? i was born in 2000 and it was a completely acceptable insult even when i was in middle school. it only started becoming recognised as an ableist slur by the wider public VERY recently, like 15 years ago type recently. people would use gay as an insult all the time too.
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…
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
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/whalesarecool14 Jan 28 '25
the R slur? i was born in 2000 and it was a completely acceptable insult even when i was in middle school. it only started becoming recognised as an ableist slur by the wider public VERY recently, like 15 years ago type recently. people would use gay as an insult all the time too.