Why are slurs making a comeback?
NO SUCH THING
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Certain taboo words have recently crept back into common use across private conversation, on social media, and in mainstream entertainment, seemingly all along the political spectrum. In this episode, we explore why slurs are making a comeback, featuring Business Insider deputy executive editor Mia de Graaf.
Business Insider: The return of the slur
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Maney here. I'm genuinely ecstatic that you're tuning in for episode three of |
| 0:05.3 | no such thing. Quick content warning, though, this episode features language that may be |
| 0:10.5 | uncomfortable to hear. You probably guess this by the literal title of the episode, but in many |
| 0:16.0 | cases, this language is not censored. So if you don't want to hear any of that, now's your chance to back |
| 0:21.2 | out. Otherwise, enjoy the episode. I'm Annie. I'm Noah. And I'm Devin. And this is no such thing, |
| 0:27.9 | a show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. Today's |
| 0:33.4 | episode is about the return of slurs. We'll talk about why we think this is happening. We'll hear from |
| 0:39.0 | some people who are using slurs again, and we'll also interview a very special guest. |
| 0:46.6 | There's no such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. Thank you. All right. So I'm going to start here with kind of an acknowledgment. |
| 1:07.0 | An acknowledgement that a lot of us were using slurs when we were in middle school, elementary school. |
| 1:12.3 | High school? |
| 1:13.2 | High school? |
| 1:14.1 | Okay. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm not going to go that far. |
| 1:15.4 | Into college. |
| 1:17.1 | I remember specifically in middle school, you know, I was in the Halo 2 lobbies. |
| 1:24.0 | Like that was not a safe space, so to you were getting racial slurs homophobic slurs |
| 1:30.5 | the r word just flying left and right every other word especially when you would lose which I never did |
| 1:37.4 | in middle school and in high school in my, you started to see the usage of these words |
| 1:45.3 | take a step back. And I remember this is around the time when like people in your circles |
| 1:50.5 | would start coming out. And I remember one of my best friends came out to us and he was someone |
| 1:58.9 | who was using the F word. but it made sense, right? Because he was like from, |
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