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 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).