You are mistaken if you think nobody objects to vile, vulgar, racial epithets.
The best policy, imho, is to completely shun the people who post them.
there is nothing inherently wrong with the word '******' or any other word.
There IS something wrong with calling a black person a '******'
If you can't see the difference than you have learned nothing in your life.
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How would one ask fro this book in a book store?
seriously? Has pc-ism become so rampant and acceptable that one would ask for "the book written by a black man with the title of the 'n' word"?
How degrading, insulting, and patronizing would that be?