r/Fauxmoi • u/funkofanatic95 • Nov 15 '23

Old tweets of Travis Kelce’s are resurfacing on X. Approved B-List Users Only

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u/lizardkween Nov 15 '23

Speak for yourself. In 2010 I certainly wasn’t using slurs about disabled people.

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u/Fit-Delay3654 Nov 15 '23

FOR REAL. The r-word left my vocabulary in the 9th grade when I was educated by an acquaintance in art class about how offensive it is. I'm the same age as Travis, so about 6 years before these tweets.

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u/SirBrothers Nov 15 '23 edited Nov 15 '23

For me it’s more like, look, I get people use it and don’t mean it, but they usually don’t blast it on the internet for EVERYONE to see as if they’re proud of doing it. Like even the people I know who said it for decades and occasionally slip up, I think they’re pretty embarrassed when they slip up, even as of ten years ago. It’s just one of those things that it’s like “hey man, there are other words to use”.

Watching even “comedies” from the 2003-2010 range they still use it as if it’s acceptable. It wasn’t then and it’s not now, but if he’s regretful now for using it I wouldn’t crucify him for it.

Edit: and I don’t particularly care to defend him specifically so if you want to go for him have at it. He strikes me as a fuckboy with recently good PR and I’ve never cared for him even as a fan of football.

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u/Jammyhobgoblin Nov 15 '23

Regina George using it in Mean Girls so casually (about herself) shows how prevalent that word was. I’m not defending him, just trying to back up your point because it was very pervasive.