Maybe the solution is to stay off Twitter, but it's very disturbing to see the normalization of slurs happening in real time on there. White people saying the n-word with approval, the return of saying "gay" as a pejorative, lots of casual racism against Indian men, using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid. I don't know 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.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    5 months ago

    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

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      a person I talked to once said they couldn't listen to Chapo because of all the slurs and I can only believe people get it confused with cumtown

      unless they're talking about slurs for italians

      • djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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        5 months ago

        Cumtown has largely moved away from this type of humor since rebranding as TAFS as well. It’s not completely gone, but it’s not what it used to be.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          I mean, did you hear the Matt Healy episode? And they only got in trouble for that one because Swifties heard about it. They were still definitely doing a lot of the same humor.

      • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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        5 months ago

        It was when they were asking people to submit audit questions i don't remember exactly but i can do some work looking for it i suppose

      • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        i think that was the episode 200 or 400 q and a where they also talked about what fursona they were.