What I'm really concerned about is Politicians running on the promise that they will let you say the R word on the internet again and nobody is saying Let's get the autistic people out of ICE detention camps.

[–] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think with normal people who weren't in "leftist spaces" I noticed they started using it again IRL after COVID

My normie liberal friends don't care

I think the difference is that it's really weird and immature for a politician to run on it

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

I noticed this especially myself, its a reflection of covid with normies, I even heard a few f slurs and got it directed twice at myself (once hatefully, another playfully), and the r word was never polite but now I hear young people using it. Gay as a pejorative also made a comeback simultaneously

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also, one of the largest and most active forums in the internet (Wallstreet bets) used it with zero irl consequences.

It'll get you looked at funny and shouted at if the people around you are cool if you say it out loud, but the truth is that most people didn't really care about it so much as to do something about it the way other slurs do.

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Was it really ever a word you couldn't say? Even liberal Americans say it offline during conventions. Only on the internet you can't say it.

Yeah and the latter only since about 10 years, plus minus.