I keep hearing it on lefty podcasts too, and it's pissing me off.
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Trueanon (brace?) in particular are guilty of this
Definitely Brace. Brace with reckless abandon.
brace never stopped saying it, if you go to a live show of theirs brace consistently goes off the rails
I thought he made some joke about not wanting to say it now that it’s back in fashion on the right. But good to know he continues unabated
As someone else pointed out, you could say it, just not online.
Yes, and he's otherwise pretty cool and good. I don't get it.
When it came up in fettermans book you could hear the glee in the chapos voices. Sucked
More shocking to me are the casual demands for opponents to self harm have jumped considerably in the last few years.
That's always been a big thing on the internet, or at least since I started using it regularly (early 00s).
I remember a whole thing where back in the mid-00s a prominent Let's Player spent a portion of a video publicly telling someone who'd applied for a spot as a guest commentator to self-harm because he'd Googled the applicant's username and found out he wrote an erotic fanfic with two consenting adult characters. The LPer's viewers more or less unanimously agreed that this was a cool and normal thing for the LPer to do and that the applicant had it coming.
Also, how do they NEVER get banned?
If you’re a leftist, you know all too well tech companies will treat even you saying “hello” as unspeakable profanity, yet chuds revel in being vulgar and screeching obscenities and no one cares.
Back in the 00s or earlier, a lot of people said the r-slur basically as a way of saying "dumb" with emphasis. There wasn't always the connotation of an edge to it, or a direct understanding that you were demeaning people with intellectual disabilities. Even when it was directly mocking those people, you hadn't had an extended period of mainstream reflection on punching up/punching down, or on how fucked up mainstream language can be (e.g., the former name of the Washington Commanders).
But all those cats are out of the bag now. People who say that slur today are at best trying to be edgy, and are at worst consciously being mean. The edginess only kind of works -- everyone knows you weren't saying this a few years ago, so how edgy are you, really? I'm not even sure it works well anymore as performative meanness, because the whole idea of "we're bringing this back" so strongly emphasizes how uncreative it is.
Back in the 00s or earlier, a lot of people said the r-slur basically as a way of saying "dumb" with emphasis. There wasn't always the connotation of an edge to it, or a direct understanding that you were demeaning people with intellectual disabilities.
Do you remember the original version of Black Eyed Peas "Let's get it started"? That was something
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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.
It's nowhere near as taboo as the N word f.ex, not even close.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Recession?
I think Trump is gonna say the N word on live TV before he says that one
I'd love him to say that. At least it would be the wake up call for some MAGA minorities.
all their friends are saying the n word anyway
no way a sitting president will ever use the word necession while in office
Please censor yourself I'm very triggered now
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Everyone is 12
I hate America and almost everyone in it.
Can someone please expain to me the psychology here? Why does everyone love these insolent douchebags and hate me for being nice to people? No really, I don’t get it.
The honest answer is that Liberalism is an anti-social ideology- induvidualism forced on a social species. Some countries try and mitigate this contradiction with social services and "community events", but its still there, that underlying notion that you are alone, struggling to get by and everyone around you is competing for those same resources. In amerika its just worse cause of the intentional destruction of third spaces and no community, subburbs etc.
So being nice and joyful is alien to people cause "what are you so happy about?". Like, being happy is threatening to people cause they can't understand that you don't need an outside object/experience to acheive happiness so they think you got something they don't and they want it, they think they can out compete you for it. Add in the necessary dehumanization that liberalism needs and you get a bunch of miserable fucks who revel in anger and devisive language, and who will never come together in times of crisis. Like, right now.
Misery loves company.
Theres more but whats the point. The answer is always Liberalism forced on a social species.
also life and the world is fucking garbage so "what are you so happy about?" is an accusation of something.
Idk where you live,but the Americans I still speak to, and when I lived in America nobody fucking liked this shit
I think this is for a very small demographic
Is it? Performative cruelty towards the disabled has never exactly seemed to be a dealbreaker for most people.
Liberals have been doing it too for a while now unfortunately. They do it because they're trying to appeal to reactionaries.
If they both have a reason to say it then it will successfully re-enter mainstream use, at least among americans. I'm hopeful that it won't infect the UK through shared language on account of people generally having much better attitudes to disability here.
real weird use of the word reclaim
South Park thought country.
i think i saw that video yesterday. maybe im just making this up because i was very high but im almost certain he said the r word and the crowd started cheering for him lmfao. was that real or is my brain making that up?
If they are so successful that it actually becomes a redefined word with social understanding that it's used as a reference to somebody who is Republican or fascist or Nazi or has those tendencies, that could be awesome.
What's the R word? 🥴
Revisionist.
Fuck now I'm imagining an alternate universe Hoxhaist Ben Shapiro who uses "revisionist" in place of the spaces between words.
Based?
if you're serious, it's the slur referring to people with intellectual disabilities
briefly went out of style for a few years before making a roaring comeback
I mean it was only really out of style for like 5 years from 2015-2020 amongst liberals and normies
that sounds right. but still, it was a big enough change to feel the difference in everyday life, at least from my experience. it basically disappeared overnight only to come back like wildfire
Revachol with the "ch" pronounced like an aspirated k, a relatively uncommon reactionary dogwhistle
ratatouille
Edit: which honestly is just a non spicy, no bean, squash filled chili if you think about it
Republican?
a non spicy, no bean, squash filled chili
chili with all the fun taken out
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Rizz
Revanchist
Regarded, but replace the g with a t.
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Really not sure about that. Back in January after Trump's inauguration, liberals were all about "dark woke" and their very first action was attempts to "reclaim" the use of that word so that they could call Republicans it.
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