[cherry]

you know, we never used that "n" word at all as kids IIRC...but we did use the "J" word, and the "G" word too.....Jew and Gyp.....still catch myself using them today.....

as in "he tried to jew me out of it" or "he gyped me"....

but I try not to use them....

[laplata]

but I try not to use them....

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I don’t, either.

[laplata]

The ‘Moron’ jokes were the big jokes when I was a kid.

Like “Why did the Moron throw butter up in the air?”

“To see a butterfly”.

I never heard a racial joke until I went in the Army. My parents wouldn’t have tolerated things like that.

The closest I ever came to saying something like that was when I said “Jap” and my Dad told me not to use that term but to say Japanese. My Dad had been on General MacArthur’s staff and after the Japanese surrender, and as the Occupation got under way, orders were issued not to use Jap and show respect to the Japanese people.