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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Hold up, these are common names given to people at birth? You actually know someone with these names?[/quote]

Seriously? All of them are names. I don't think Sambo is used much anymore but the others are. They probably have fallen in to disuse exactly because of their negative connotations now.

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Yeah, seriously. Who do you know with any of those names? These are not commons names given at birth, like the name you chose to block. These are actual racial slurs with a history. [/quote]

You might win the density prize for today. They were all common names that came to be used as slurs. Because nobody wants to name their child with a slur, the names fell into disuse. There are still Jemimas, Hymies, and Guidos today, though obviously not all that common. But the fact that there are names that once were common but fell into disuse because they were used as slurs hardly seems like a good excuse for using a name that is common today as a slur. [/quote]

So to be clear, you don’t know anyone with these actual names. These are not common names and have not been common names for decades. You do, however, actually think K-word is a racial slur that will go down in history with these words. Yeah, ok. [/quote]

I do not think that the K-word is a racial slur. Rather I think that its use as a derogatory term has racial, sexist, and ageist connotations. But, my main issue with it is that it is over-used and played out. Whatever humor was once associated with it was lost long ago.

It is rather remarkable that you don’t don’t understand that several names that are now slurs were once common names. They would not have become slurs were they not common. This is simply to demonstrate that the suggestion that something cannot be a slur because it is a name is false. We have examples of just that. [/quote]

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