• Hemingways_Shotgun
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    1318 hours ago

    It’s not “gone”, but the notion of it being “acceptable” is gone:

    Using ‘retard’ as a slur, not only for people with intellectual disabilities but also just for people or things you think were stupid.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate
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      44 hours ago

      Using ‘retard’ as a slur, not only for people with intellectual disabilities

      That’s actually the one group of people I’ve never seen anyone call that, lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 hours ago

        I was gonna say the same. I saw the R word casually dropped in a CRT enthusiast group the other day and called the guy out, and a bunch of people stood with me, but nearly as many brushed it off as no big deal.