I heard the fucking n word last night, hard R. Fourth time I've heard it this year.

I don't know anymore y'all.

I have noticed this too. I feel there's been a general uptick in hateful language being used, 'ironically' or not. Could be a kind of cultural swing back from the widespread check on people's use of those words, whether that's an assuredly conservative cultural shift I'm not sure yet.

But yes it's certainly perceivable and I think it's a bad sign, I'm sure this is only the start of this kind of reaction.

I feel like some queer people adopted the f-slur to sometimes refer to themselves sarcastically. Then like it always does, the word becomes friendlier towards younger people on internet. I don’t know so much about the r-slur. But the n word for sure. I’ve heard people say it with and without a presence of black people in recent years. (I’m not black btw) I do believe that throughout the Trump administration then Elon Musk’s free speech agenda in twitter space helped a lot of racists to gain the courage to say the N word out loud.

Huh, I've seen it used on lefties more. Though the language is coming back. :/

So we have to understand. A queer person calling a conservative person a homophonic slur is hilarious.

We can't deny this. It would be cumtown erasure.

You don't mean "fuck", right?

Personally, I notice right wingers saying the r-slur, but not much else.

Kids graduate from middle and high school, become mature enough to realize who their enemies are, but not mature enough to not insult marginalized people

I haven't heard an N word in a long long time, and I don't ever see f-slur unless it's from an online nazi.

R slur though - all the time.

I think people are definitely sick of language/tone policing in general, especially because it's been so co-opted by limp liberal establishments (from bougie academics to Raytheon) and HR departments.

But I also think it's a natural response to constant surveillance and billions of digital footprints. Everyone's got a camera on them, and everyone's got an online past. And everyone's seen that getting cancelled doesn't really matter. The worst of them will lose their job, but that's about it. And you have to be doing something pretty bad for that to happen (or wear a palestine badge). Combine that with general deterioration, and you'll see that people just don't care.

I also think the uptick of ADHD and autism diagnoses means that there's a lot of people who feel they have some right to say it.

To be honest, in my entire life I've never seen the term used for an actual intellectually disabled person (outside of old films). The term seems to just mean 'severe idiot' these days. There happens to be a lot of 'severe idiots' out there in the world right now.