Homie, IDK what dark corner of the web you found yourself on when doing your research, but take it from someone who was there. That word was a big No-No WELL before 1990.
I would certainly hope so. Favor is the wrong word to use…its use was so heavily discouraged that, around 1990 with the OJ Simpson trials, it finally dropped out of most people’s common vernacular & was not even referred to in media. Then referred to as “the n-word”.
That’s simply incorrect. Nothing changed in 1990. Since before I was born (1974) non-racist white people did not use that word. It’s possible that some news outlets updated their style guides around that time to completely forbid that word in any context, but it was most certainly not something your average person would just drop into conversations, and definitely not something a publication would just casually throw out. I’m telling you- I was there, I was alive then. I remember.
Hell I grew up in a town that was super racist among the older generation, and even there I never heard that word said in school. If someone had they would have had their asses beat (we still had corporal punishment, that’s how long ago this was).
That’s been the media narrative for years & years, they always tie in some cop dragging OJ Simpson off & calling him a n-gger. Then it was like a switch was flipped & everyone was like, you know what…we’re done even reporting this… let’s call it the n-word.
Here, I promise, I am randomly pulling an example. 8:01 AM my time. By 8:02, I found this 2nd result, How OJ Simpson created the n-word. No, I am not researching this further, in the same way that I’m not popping my head outside to confirm the sky is blue. I pass the torch…to you. I found it in 1 minute by searching “OJ Simpson n-word”. Over 20 years, I have casually seen this connection cited dozens of times.
Also in my own defense, I was posting this at 3 AM & clearly no one’s on my wavelength. So I went to bed. It’s now 8 AM & I’m going to work. OJ Simpson n-word. Have fun. 👍👍👍👍
I’ve never seen mainstream media pushing that narrative. It should be a huge red flag to you if the only source you can find that supports your belief is on social media (yes, YouTube is social media).
“It should be a huge red flag” that you can’t be bothered to web search OJ Simpson N-word, search specifically for news articles, and look at the dozens of results that pop up. Huge red flag. Multiple red flags. Perhaps even banner sized red flags.
Nowhere in any of those articles does it state that the word was ever part of “most people’s common vernacular,” as you claimed. When most people found out what those detectives said they were disgusted. Awareness, and the public discourse about racism definitely changed after the OJ trials, but most people weren’t casually using the N word in the 80s.
Homie, IDK what dark corner of the web you found yourself on when doing your research, but take it from someone who was there. That word was a big No-No WELL before 1990.
I would certainly hope so. Favor is the wrong word to use…its use was so heavily discouraged that, around 1990 with the OJ Simpson trials, it finally dropped out of most people’s common vernacular & was not even referred to in media. Then referred to as “the n-word”.
That’s simply incorrect. Nothing changed in 1990. Since before I was born (1974) non-racist white people did not use that word. It’s possible that some news outlets updated their style guides around that time to completely forbid that word in any context, but it was most certainly not something your average person would just drop into conversations, and definitely not something a publication would just casually throw out. I’m telling you- I was there, I was alive then. I remember.
Hell I grew up in a town that was super racist among the older generation, and even there I never heard that word said in school. If someone had they would have had their asses beat (we still had corporal punishment, that’s how long ago this was).
I’m curious where you got this impression from?
That’s been the media narrative for years & years, they always tie in some cop dragging OJ Simpson off & calling him a n-gger. Then it was like a switch was flipped & everyone was like, you know what…we’re done even reporting this… let’s call it the n-word.
Here, I promise, I am randomly pulling an example. 8:01 AM my time. By 8:02, I found this 2nd result, How OJ Simpson created the n-word. No, I am not researching this further, in the same way that I’m not popping my head outside to confirm the sky is blue. I pass the torch…to you. I found it in 1 minute by searching “OJ Simpson n-word”. Over 20 years, I have casually seen this connection cited dozens of times.
Also in my own defense, I was posting this at 3 AM & clearly no one’s on my wavelength. So I went to bed. It’s now 8 AM & I’m going to work. OJ Simpson n-word. Have fun. 👍👍👍👍
I’ve never seen mainstream media pushing that narrative. It should be a huge red flag to you if the only source you can find that supports your belief is on social media (yes, YouTube is social media).
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“It should be a huge red flag” that you can’t be bothered to web search OJ Simpson N-word, search specifically for news articles, and look at the dozens of results that pop up. Huge red flag. Multiple red flags. Perhaps even banner sized red flags.
Nowhere in any of those articles does it state that the word was ever part of “most people’s common vernacular,” as you claimed. When most people found out what those detectives said they were disgusted. Awareness, and the public discourse about racism definitely changed after the OJ trials, but most people weren’t casually using the N word in the 80s.