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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (652539)4/24/2012 9:06:30 AM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1580690
 
and you used it in front of someone of the racial group you were all against, and they didn't' recognize it, it would still be a slur. It would be an unrecognized insult, but still an insult.
If it's used by a group, it wouldn't take long for the offended group to recognize it.....

Their taking offense, doesn't make the word a slur.
If the target group finds it offensive, they have the right to say so as has been done with "Jap" and "Chinaman"....
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