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Slurs becoming normalized in 2024? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by FugaziArchivist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Maybe the solution is to stay off Twitter, but it's very disturbing to see the normalization of slurs happening in real time on there. White people saying the n-word with approval, the return of saying "gay" as a pejorative, lots of casual racism against Indian men, using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid. I don't know whether this is a larger cultural lurch to the right, or whether it's mostly attributed to Musk's elimination of quality control and monitors on the platform.

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[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were they ever not normalized? Everyone I know IRL uses slurs and is casually racist pretty frequently. The only slur people kind of avoid is the n-word.

The r-slur and f-slur in particular are common among any group of men you can find.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd probably due to my appearance but I haven't heard either said around me by dudes in over a decade. I've heard some horrible misogyny but as far as explicit slurs go, even working kitchens it hasn't been a thing. Now, I'm also very obviously left wing in appearance I have a spiky red mullet and dress like a British crust punk from.the late 80s and am also very assertive and can be a but scary, so people may have just watched their mouths, but even then some real fucked up methhead tough guys line cooks have been my co-workers and I've for sure heard and shut down some very explicitly racist rhetoric, but I guess they knew using full slurs was an easy way to get canned after. Just my experience. I'm also Canadian and in a very Lib to left city.

[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a cracker who grew up and lives in a conservative crackerburb outside a coastal city. This stuff is all said by relatively soft, though gender conforming, cishet white guys. Mostly PMC and petite boug, so it's simultaneously ridiculously bigoted shit while not considering themselves bigoted.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I've never really dealt with that class strata.