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That's a pretty trivial 'yes', no one objects to saying something like 'the lack of oxygen retarded the spread of the fire'. Otherwise it's not, but I don't think you see it used any more outside of people trying to be offensive (edgy 13-year-olds in games, anti-woke people, and the like). Hieronymous Alloy posted:Generally speaking, if you use a slur, the conversation immediately stops being about what you were talking about before and instead becomes a conversation about the slur. It's interesting watching reaction videos to The Dead Kennedy's "Holiday in Cambodia" when they use the original track, there's a distinct double-take when the slur comes on. There wasn't the same stigma around using the word when the song was recorded, especially since the context is that the people using it are the ones in the wrong, so while it exactly conveyed 'these are stuck up white people who claim to understand the black people they sneer at' back in the day, now it's just 'whoa this white dude dropped an n-bomb'. Modern performances and covers just switch the line to say 'blacks' instead, which gets the point across without the controversy and is more accurate to modern usage of the group being criticized. (In the 1970s, white people, even ones who didn't consider themselves racist, were way more likely to use the word casually, now the type of people the song is talking about would avoid it even if they share the prejudice). Jesus III posted:It's fun watching the word that used to be the right word become the wrong word. I hope I live long enough to see it happen over and over. Language is amazing. But it was never the right word. Calling someone 'mentally retarded' was a neutral, clinical term, but the insult form was always intended to be a slur.
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