What are things you could say 25 years ago that would be controversial today?

[PT 940]

I once got screeched at in high school by some dweeb for referring to a group of men and women as "guys". Good times.

The worst. People suck. Try this next time, if someone is offended by being referred to as "guys" - say, "Hey, gang!" That's what my mom always said to me and my cousin. We were hardly a gang, though. It was just her way of getting our attention, always worked.

 

[Trilby]

Communism is bad

I remember going to a junior high that threw out all it's books on Communism during the summer of '91. I only wish it stayed that way.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Commie" is probably controversial in Current Year too.

"Pinko" too.

And especially "pinko commie."

 

[John Titor]

Since I'm on a Mega64 binge.

This guy most certainly has a bounty on his head by now.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Looks like it's "problematic" to say "black" -- even "African American" -- or "Asian" and the like. Now such are lumped together as "people of color," which is somehow magically different from "colored people."

Oh but it's still OK to call people white.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

This child with autism obviously needs to be placed on very high doses of Lithium.

 

[Jmz_33]

I couldn’t say shit because I was a fucking fetus 25 years ago.

 

[ThatGayElfFromDragonAge]

Dead Or Alive is the greatest band of all time.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

They’re doing three more Star Wars films? Holy shit sign me up!

 

[sad cowboy cat]

The dreamcast will never die

 

[DangerousGas]

Looks like it's "problematic" to say "black" -- even "African American" -- or "Asian" and the like. Now such are lumped together as "people of color," which is somehow magically different from "colored people."

Oh but it's still OK to call people white.

Fortunately, this POC bullshit hasn't reached us here in Bongistan.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

"Stories are not concrete evidence"

 

[Freddy Freaker]

Fortunately, this POC bullshit hasn't reached us here in Bongistan.

But the POC have certainly reached the kids

 

[Hog On Ice]

Hating people because of the color of their skin is racist.

My sexual preferences are no one else’s business.

I’m gonna miss The Simpsons when it’s gone.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

"We should judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
I hate that we live in a time when MLK would be labeled an Uncle Tom.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I got another one but it's not a thing you could say but it was a show, a certain TV show where it was a working class black family in an urban environment the father was a police officer and said law enforcement role was seen as a positive.

Family Matters, the cop was played by Reginald Veljohnson. Also known as the black cop fella in Die Hard and a jail guard in Ghostbusters.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Family Matters, the cop was played by Reginald Veljohnson. Also known as the black cop fella in Die Hard and a jail guard in Ghostbusters.

Yeah that's the show I was getting at, the other would be Fresh Prince or at least the episodes where they decide to take a look at themselves such as the fraternity one nowadays Carlton would be seen as the sellout or the episode where a friend of Phil and Vivian's comes to visit who's the kinda sorta black panther lite who tells will to stay in school and be grateful for the opportunities granted to him and to pay it forward.

 

[Lathe]

Illegal immigrants don’t deserve government handouts or voting rights.

 

[Jason Wynn]

if sharing a cigarette with someone, we used to say “don’t nigger lip it” meaning don’t slobber all over the filter. Can only imagine how that would go today

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

"I wish TV, Hollywood, BET and MTV showed black entertainment as more than black people behaving badly. It makes it seem like only uncouth and rude behavior is the only humor black people are capable of."

"I wish the news would show someone other than the crackhead with 4 teeth and no shirt when they interview black people."

"Muslims aren't people."