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by anonymars 4 days ago
I'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill
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Yeah, that's the Linus "hard R" (he thought "hard R" referred to "retard"), but it's just wrong. "Hard R" is "nigger", in opposition to soft r ("nigga"). I don't think there's even a question, that's how hard/soft has always been used. Anything else is just confusion, I think.
That would be the “Linus Sebastian misconception”
Ok, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
There is a thing called Google, "Linus Sebastian Hard R" is full of information.