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Yeah, there's definately complexity here, and not just in the specifics but in the general. @MugaSofer below is gesturing at a sort of taxonomic breakdown, which I thought about attempting but didn't have the energy for; leaving aside the political angle, that's where I think the meat of the general question could be found.
I think these are the central example of actual blue slurs. And yeah, they get used on Blues as well, the same as "bundle-of-sticks" might get used on reds by other reds. It's all various forms of "bad person", "disgusting person", right? The thing is, social judgement and social enforcement are pretty clearly necessary if people are going to live together, so I'm pessimistic that the core form is ever going to go away. "bitch" got embargoed pretty thoroughly in its original context; "Karen" seems to cover like 90% of the same territory.
In the cold light of morning, I think you're entirely correct here. This argument relied on "can a thing possibly happen", and presented it as evidence of a norm. Further, the cases I could think of involved it being spoken, and I can't think of a single case where it was used in print or online. The hard-R has so much taboo mojo that it's going to be used by someone somewhere sooner or later, and some percentage of those uses are not going to be immediately struck by lightning, but that's pretty much the opposite of a norm. I was wrong.
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