If people react to the r-word as much as the n-word.
Do they? I’m not saying Frink, I’m saying people. I guess I don’t interact with enough people to know whether it generally an unacceptable epithet to most people now. I know it’s unacceptable here, because people here said it was. But in general is it really on that level of just being a downright nasty epithet?
Like, just in a general, in real life, if something happened that one feels is unjustified and one shows one’s displeasure by saying “that’s retarded.” Is that an epithet?
I’m not saying it’s not. And I’m not saying I use it. I’m saying it didn’t used to be a big deal, and last I remember someone complaining about it it maybe still wasn’t as big a deal as it again has become.
I don’t understand why it really matters how it was taken in the past. The thing is that we’re talking about. A thing that happened now, December 2017. The past shouldn’t really matter in that conversation.
It matters because this is a discussion board and language changes over time. the severity of the epithet changes over time, it seems. I was unaware of it being so severe as to warrant an immediate, no-warning instaban.
Well now you know. No need to discuss it in a committee.