Matt Damon, 'months ago'

[Cosmocat]

27. This is petty, and the long knives continue to come closer and closer to our own

I am the same age as MD, have a child with disabilities, and I still have to hold back from my impulse to use the word retard because we when we grew up, gay, faggot, retard were very common terms used generally and without the negative implications that they have now.

Heck, it was common and accepted to use heb, raghead, spick, wap ...

The 70s/early 80s were a time when there was a slightly uncomfortable coming together of people who were different, which included laughing at these types of things.

That kind of stuff gets a bit hard wired and while you can change with the times as you age you tend at times to default to that which you did a lot when you were younger.

You can still be a "good" person and fall victim to an aging brain that defaults to what it was set on in your younger years.

EVERYONE has their faults, their foibles, the things they say or do that are not ideal at times.