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> I remember people using terms like "retarded" and "gyp" without hesitation. Today even people who hate political correctness don't talk like that in public.
by tzakrajs 9y ago
> I remember people using terms like "retarded" and "gyp" without hesitation. Today even people who hate political correctness don't talk like that in public.
Wrong wrong wrong. They still do these a lot.
- JKCalhoun 9y agoI prefer, "You sir, have negotiated with me as would a Gypsy. I am cross." Seriously though, kids used it all the time when I was growing up — I didn't even know "gyp" was derogatory until I was perhaps in my 30's. If I had to guess, young me would have suspected it was spelled "jip" anyway. We told Pollack jokes too and I didn't even know it meant someone from Poland. I was not very cosmopolitan as a kid.