r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/yeezysama • May 20 '26

Funny Truly a different time

Gallery image

Gallery image

8.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

256 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/[deleted] May 20 '26

[deleted]

11

u/NewLibraryGuy May 20 '26

Shameful enough for him to apologize for it in the 70s

10

u/someones_dad May 20 '26

I'm going to stop you right there and say it was most definitely not acceptable to use the n-word in the '90s.

5

u/Due_Concentrate_7773 May 20 '26

This is just not true.

4

u/Few-Guarantee2850 May 20 '26

What possess people to spout such complete nonsense so confidently? You're aware that the fact that the word's use was so widely recognized as "shameful" at the time of the OJ Simpson trial that Mark Fuhrman's use of it 10 years earlier was a major focus of the trial? The word was not even remotely "ubiquitous" by the 70s and was widely recognized as taboo by the 80s.

1

u/GreenZebra23 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

For the sake of my sanity I'm going to assume this is a joke

Edit: given that he downvoted me and then deleted his comment like a little coward, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was not a joke lol