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briandmyers  ·  3802 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "That's Retarded." Words and Offense.

"Official term" is not the right phrase, but - it really was not that long ago that there was damn-near zero stigma attached to the use of "nigger". See Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", for example - 1885.