Certain words are definitely racist, insulting, derogatory, never to be spoken etc,
For the rest of the words in the oxford dictionary, context gives them meaning.
If you remove context from the english language, then any interpretation can be imagined. If you let context be defined by morons, black clouds of despair will cover society
In one discussion I had with people from all over the world (but maybe 60% from USA) there was a thread I started about methods on giving up cigarettes, only I used certain terms in the post 'giving up the fags', 'gasping for a fag', 'pack of fags' etc. Some pc fascists just would not give up and hounded me over the use of the word 'fags'. That's a homophobic word, yes it is but it's also in the Oxford dictionary and in daily common use by millions of people for hundreds of years - meaning a cigarette. Somebody from a Canadian city, pointed out for the last 10 years their gay pride march had merrily passed right by a small shop called 'Fags & Mags', with not a murmur of discontent. Even when context beyond doubt has been established, in a thread about giving up cigarettes, they would not back down about the use of the word 'fag' being offensive. Their not backing down, or refusing to be educated - my interpretation
, had nothing to do with respect for gays, it had to do with their dogma, their insistence to ignore context and be the equivalent of the John Birch Society.
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