Please stay off Twitter.

whether this is a larger cultural lurch to the right, or whether it’s mostly attributed to Musk’s elimination of quality control and monitors on the platform.

Chicken and egg

Yeah I’m noticing this trend too actually. For a good few years it’s been pretty firmly unacceptable socially to say the r-slur for example, with even complete chuds dancing around it with “oh yeah i cant say that anymore!” kind of stuff. But over the last year or so I’ve seen people just throwing it around like it’s nothing again, and I’m always just like “wtf, did i just slip back into 2011?”

One thing I can tell you is that people are a lot more willing to say slurs if they sense that they won’t get criticized or penalized for it, and I’m speaking from experience. With Musk loosening rules on Twitter to a point where “cis” is considered more of a slur there than the n-word is, this is not a shocking development.

hay guyz im seeing a bunch of slurs on the dying social media website only right wing freaks still use, are slurs becoming normalized?

I wouldn’t judge cultural trends by what’s happening on X dot com, the cool people have either left or are spending significantly less time on the website formerly known as twitter, now that it’s a project of the far-right. remember that people who donate to Musk literally get boosted by the algorithm

if people are saying it more in real life, especially young people, then that’s a problem. I don’t know if that’s the case or not because I don’t spend any time around teenagers

Twitter is just full of the most reactionary people possible. This sort of thing is still unacceptable irl

On a Q&A Chapo did, someone asked what to say to their friend who says Chapo uses the r-slur. The response from Felix was essentially (paraphrasing) “if people still accuse us of that why did we even stop using it” and i have heard it twice total on the pod since theni believe said by guests but i can’t recall. Strange times we live in

i think that might just be twitter, but i have noticed a huge rise in casual homophobia from cis straight women (despite a decline in straight men) in the past couple years, at least in gen z

on tiktok and ig reels, there’s constantly a new way to call x group of straight men “gay” without actually saying the word “gay” (and they always claim it’s not homophobic)

“fruity,” “zesty,” “💅”, “fruitcake,” “closet is glass,” “gun pink,” etc., the most annoying things you can think of. i’ve heard it out in the wild too.

swear in 2023 it was like every month there was a new homophobic audio trend. “mmm, this one has a little sweetness to it,” “de-nial is a river in egypt!” and the caption will be something like, “when he cares about approval from his guy friends more than his own girlfriend,” or “when he says ‘sorry’ instead of ‘my bad’”

i think it’s just easier to do content moderation on websites and stuff on TV/movies has become more keen on scrubbing slurs, so it’s seemed like slurs have been less normalized, maybe?

in daily life I haven’t noticed any drop in slur usage since the 90s. People will still call stuff gay or homo in a negative way. I’ve had the homophobic f-word slur screamed at me by passing cars a few times while on my bike. My coworkers will let loose any number of slurs that they claim to not even realize are slurs, mostly the homophobic or transphobic kind.

Yeah and white people absolutely will say the n-word when they think they’re in private company. I’ve had taxi drivers say it to me since they see a white person and think they can relax their language around me. I used to work at a grocery store around 2014 and older customers would regularly complain about prices and say “that n-word is making the prices higher” (referring to obama), like right at me at the register.

The USA is a fascist country and every new person I meet is regarded as a potential reactionary until proven otherwise. I put elderly white people under the most scrutiny. Explicitly, outwardly queer/trans people are the only types I feel really comfortable with anymore

Only slur I ever hear on a regular basis is the r-slur from people at work. That’s it. I haven’t heard someone say the n word in public in a hot minute and I don’t think it would go well where I am (a not awful place in the south).

I think that’s just twitter lol.

It’s just that Nazis are 90% of Twitter now

i have definitely seen “gay” and the f-slur come back, but a large percentage of the time its been by fellow lgbtq peeps, so i dunno? I don’t really use them, but I don’t see why we cant.

Haven’t seen an acceptance of whitey using the n word without pushback, and casual racism against Indian men has always been “acceptable” here in amerikkka, so i dunno.

Yeah, the other day I posted about some assholes who made a yard sign that said gay and the r-slur in my neighborhood.

Have you seen instagram? CW// slurs… like a lot of slurs