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My friends have already come up with a way around this: “Sup my ninja?” (apologies in advance if I’ve offended any Asians with my remarks).
I personally haven’t heard anyone say ‘Hang the xxxxxx’ but my point was to illustrate the historical significance of the word. Words have history attached to them, and I think that it is easy to forget that history means different things to different people depending on their perspective. Just as history has different meaning for different people, so do words. And I think that it’s intellectually lazy not to consider others perspectives when it comes to both history and language.[/quote]
You say words have history behind it. It works both way. If a certain word has such a charged meaning/history, then don’t trivialize it by using it yourself, then get offended when other thought it’s now trivialized. Also, if a word has a history charged meaning for a certain group of people, wouldn’t it also carry the same weight only when used by the same group of people who made that word charged in the first place?
