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[quote=Anonymous]My mind is being blown by stuff that people are saying was normal in the 70s, 80s and 90s.  I grew up then, in not major metropolitan areas, and offensive speech was not as common as people here seem to suggest.  No one used the n word that I ever heard except maybe watching Roots or something like that.  People did use the r— word pretty inappropriately, though.    Lots of homorphobic jokes but almost exclusively from boys/men.  Women really didn’t make those sorts of comments and generally thought they were dumb or offensive.  Will and grace was in the 90.  So was DOMA—but everyone I knew under 40 thought DOMA was dumb and offensive.  Someone upgthread said people said “Oriental” in the 90s.  The only person I can think of that used that term in the 90s were people that were in their 90s themselves!  I can remember correcting grandparents back in the 90s on this.

Yes, there were problems and we all still have a long way to go.  But I am blown away by people’s descriptions of what they think was normal in the 70s, 80s and 90s.  [/quote]

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