Maybe the solution is to stay off Twitter, but it’s very disturbing to see the normalization of slurs happening in real time on there. White people saying the n-word with approval, the return of saying “gay” as a pejorative, lots of casual racism against Indian men, using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid. I don’t know whether this is a larger cultural lurch to the right, or whether it’s mostly attributed to Musk’s elimination of quality control and monitors on the platform.
i have definitely seen “gay” and the f-slur come back, but a large percentage of the time its been by fellow lgbtq peeps, so i dunno? I don’t really use them, but I don’t see why we cant.
Haven’t seen an acceptance of whitey using the n word without pushback, and casual racism against Indian men has always been “acceptable” here in amerikkka, so i dunno.