This thread reminds ALL of us never to say slurs about ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, etc.
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1. I personally am terrified of young males of a certainty ethnicity who commit a lot of violent crimes.
a. I would never use a slur to their face, for I would be flat on my back in one second.
b. But even in private (among family and friends), I avoid all slurs, for saying slurs only cheapens the speaker.
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2. I have heard that we Americans are very civil compared with soccer fans in Europe. I understand that fans there often use slurs to soccer players who are not Caucasian.
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3. President Obama deserves to be commended for prohibiting the use of the word "Oriental" on government forms. Although it is not exactly a slur, it does seem disrespectful in 2018.
We are all human, so occasionally in a moment of great emotion, we might let loose a slur, but we should all try our best to avoid any kind of slur.
(P.S. It would be nice, I feel, if those members who refer to a certain ethnicity by a word that was used until the 1960s would stop using that word. That is very rude and unnecessarily hurtful to people of that group.)