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Ocelot II

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4. I think it's part of a larger trend - the use of language that's intentionally degrading and mean.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:37 AM
Mar 22

Being transgressive is a thing now, at least among right-wingers. I recall kids (probably including me) using the word waaay back in the '50s and '60s, not knowing any better, and during an era when "mental retardation" was an accepted term for developmental disability. But leave it to adults who should know better by now to dust off that old insult - because they intend to be hurtful and mean. We aren't constrained by any of that liberal wokeness and censorship and we can say whatever we damn please and if it hurts somebody so much the better because punching down is what we do, and fuck you. N****r is next, count on it.

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