Poll of the Day > Anyone else notice that people have been using the r-slur a lot more recently?

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Shawn

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Shaun

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Lorthremar posted...

go back to worshiping trump

i like to play games, i just don't identify as a gamer because most are very toxic (ie this topic or any topic about black/trans people) and i don't want to be grouped with them.

By definition if you play games then you are a gamer.

Sega9599 posted...

Who on earth says it outside the internet, frequently?

Many people.

ReturnOfFa posted...

When I was 15, my mom got mad because I saw a movie with 'the c-word' in it, and she kept insisting that I knew what she was talking about. I had never heard 'the c-word', so after being pressed for like 45 seconds, I finally whispered an ethnic slur for chinese people! smh

Did she watch it with you?

Metalsonic66 posted...

Shawn

Ron.
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

i never stopped using it

who cares

Same. Sometimes its literally the most scientifically accurate word to use.

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I have not seen it any more or less compared to 10 or 20 years ago. If you're seeing more of it, you think, then it's possible you have been missing it rather than it not happening at all.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kav7tifmyTg

Entity13 posted...

I have not seen it any more or less compared to 10 or 20 years ago. If you're seeing more of it, you think, then it's possible you have been missing it rather than it not happening at all.

I've heard a LOT more people complaining about it this year... that's about it

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11110111011 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kav7tifmyTg

Oh man I forgot about that one.
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I see "more" of it as I am from the UK and pre about 2005 it wasn't really used, we used one of two other slurs (one was the old word for downs syndrome accompanied by wrist movements and mouth sounds) the same word that in the US isn't a slur (an insult yes but not a slur)

We have become more Americanised here, I mean I hear N E S for the Nes instead of Ness or S N E S for Super Nintendo and "Genesis" not Mega Drive and people talk about American gaming history not British/European as thats what they see from streamers.

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I was goofing around before I dont actually use the word and havent really noticed many people using it much at all in years

I used the word like crazy when I was a kid. And Id also use gay as an insult and call my friends gay wads all the time. Certainly not saying it was okay. But as a kid I did what the other kids did. Nick Swardson has a comedy special where he talks about how he was basically drinking himself into a constant stupor and that along with PARTY, the R word was one of the few words of his diminutive vocabulary.

Last I heard he stays away from alcohol which is great if true but when I was younger I just thought it was funny. That special is what just got me really analyzing and looking at the word for the first time as an adult and deciding that yeah if this word is gonna make some people feel sad or have their feelings hurt, then yeah lets obviously use some better words

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silvergokuZ posted...

I see "more" of it as I am from the UK and pre about 2005 it wasn't really used, we used one of two other slurs (one was the old word for downs syndrome accompanied by wrist movements and mouth sounds) the same word that in the US isn't a slur (an insult yes but not a slur)

We have become more Americanised here, I mean I hear N E S for the Nes instead of Ness or S N E S for Super Nintendo and "Genesis" not Mega Drive and people talk about American gaming history not British/European as thats what they see from streamers.

I don't know why it would be called "Ness".
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Apparently it still gets you sensitivity training:

https://sports.yahoo.com/nascar-mandates-sensitivity-training-for-kyle-busch-after-he-used-r-word-as-adjective-233750908.html

11110111011 posted...

Apparently it still gets you sensitivity training:

https://sports.yahoo.com/nascar-mandates-sensitivity-training-for-kyle-busch-after-he-used-r-word-as-adjective-233750908.html

Why is it impossible to ever find the uncensored versions of something like that?
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

i have nothing but respect for mentally handicapped people. this dude right here rocks so hard

https://youtube.com/shorts/Bv34BL4mCVg?feature=share

Shouldnt you view mentally challenged people like me normally? Its condescending to just like us because we are handicapped.