We can all collectively thank Reagan, among other terrible things we have to deal with today due to his administration, he is also responsible for the state of news media in the US in 2025. Previous to Reagan we had a policy called The Fairness Doctrine, it was a policy introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. Broadcasters could show opposing viewpoints via option pieces, news segments or talk shows, but if they reported on one side they were required to show the other.
In 1987 under Reagan the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine. Broadcasters were no longer required to air apposing viewpoints of controversial topics. This has directly lead to the echo chambers that you see in the news media today.
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Wild that Fox News can practically say the hard R on Biden but every god-damn news channel is tippy toeing on Trump and sane-washing his bullshit
Uh, Retard?
I’m not that familiar with the usa blacklist of words.
Yeah, the short of it is that it used to be used clinically to describe developmental disorders but fell out of use around the mid-90s because, like so many other words, it was used maliciously to the point where it lost its original meaning and context.
If you were a 90s kid, retard and gay were as close as you could get to actually swearing without getting in trouble and basically carried the same cultural weight as outright slurs. The stigma around being gay was so bad that in the 2000s they made up a sexuality to describe men who were straight but liked to shower and dress in nice clothing so that they wouldn’t lose their jobs. And the stigma around mental needs little explanation, I think. It wasn’t that long ago that they were electrocuting people and cutting out parts of their brains for being sad or having a stutter.
i remember going on a school trip to san francisco in the 90s. one of my classmates kept saying “that’s so gay” about everything she didn’t like. we only let her go two shops (while gently pointing out the SF-specific merchandise) before i had to ask her “you know where we are, right?” in her credit, i never heard her speak that way after that incident so
Yeah we don’t call it that here in the states. I’ve heard ‘the r word’ but never ‘hard r’. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.
Republican?
It’s the main offensive word for black people. In general use it ends in an “a” sound, and can be positive neutral, or negative. In racist use it ends in the “hard R” and is always negative. Since you are not from the US, I would say you probably shouldn’t say it at all, just like I did not in this post.
Aah ok. That was a lot of walking around hot porridge as they say here, so:
Nigga: can be friendly
removed: the real racist bad word.
You americans are bizarre (or should I say “the B word” 😁).
Edit: lool my post got sencored! Now nobody will ever know…
Did you just write r*moved?! With a hard R?!
Though frankly, I used to think the whole moral panic around the word was just more of the typical American puritanical bullshit, until I watched Django Unchained - that movie made me realise it’s not just an insult but its use was intimately linked with rampant dehumanising (successful, I should add) and that part is still alive and kicking. In my part of the world the equivalent would be something like calling a holocaust survivor oven fuel. You just… don’t. Don’t say it.
Fuck all forms of censorship otherwise though, definitely.
Message recieved loud and clear. 👍
It’s definitely a wild etymology ride, and linguistics is one of my favorite subjects as a layman.
Congrats on your evolution!
I have a friend and his friends who call me by the word, in a friendly way. I don’t say it even though I have slave heritage (black grandmother).
And yes fuck censorship.
That was my first guess. Its amazing how people think referencing the first letter a word starts with is somehow different from just saying or typing it.
I suspect OP is using it wrong. Usually “the hard R” refers to a really bad “no-no” word.
Though the phrase has probably become a slight meme due to Linus from LTT getting the phrase’s meaning wrong in the same way you guys have, but on a live broadcast.
Any “no-no” word?
You can actually write one down, we’re not in kindergarten 🤷🏼♀️.
I can, but I don’t want to because it’s disrespectful.
Also, I think you’d even get thrown out of middle school for saying this one.
A big part of it is he’s doing what Israel wants…
Israel kept bombing past the ceasefire start, but look at MSM and everyone is saying Iran violated the ceasefire when they retaliated for Israel not even stopping for it.
It’s decades past time to recognize that Israel’s government has bought off the majority of both of our parties along with our media.
We can’t just keep ignoring it or screaming “both sides” when people point it out
It’s not gonna fix itself, and we can’t fix it till we admit it’s a problem
I have a slightly different take.
He is doing what Russia wants which actually means get Israel to stop bombing Iran because Iran is an important asset to Putin. In the mean time he can look good for ending the conflict. At least thats what daddy Putin told him.
Iran was informed about the US attack. They made sure there were no casualties and the US promptly proclaimed the nuclear treat was now gone. Then Iran did a symbolic counter attack because all people (including Iran citizens) expected a counter attack.
The message seems to be directed at Israel “we solved the problem, now you can stop bombing”
Except Trump is learning the hard way that Israel is just using him for the fool he is and is in no way going to stop their purge. Basically calling the bluff because Netanyahu stopped caring about how they are perceived a while ago.
Israel played there cards very well realising that Russia is in to much of a difficult position with Ukraine to start a war with them to defend Iran.
I have zero proof of above hypothesis but its what emerges in my autistic head if i do go over all the details and in context it just makes a lot of sense to me.
There is a word for this framing of reality and its hypernormalization.
I appreciate both your take and the inclusion of “zero proof” and “hypothesis”. It tastes better with those grains of salt.
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Journalism in the US is dead. Being shocked or angry at anything the news does or doesn’t say at this point is in “fools me twice, shame on me” territory.
You’d be better off asking Days of Our Lives to weigh in.
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I really like ProPublica and More Perfect Union.
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someday everyone will have always been against this
What colors do I need to change my profile pic to to show that I always supported [the winning side]?
The Russian flag
