Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It

Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by tzakrajs on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:45AM (#16763040)

> 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.

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by JKCalhoun on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:11AM (#16771250)

I 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.

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