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@BeauNidle
Listening to the book club thingy on Radio 4 I was aghast at one panellist being all offended that another had given their child Huckleberry Finn to read without supervision as it contained the word Nigger. FFS what are things coming to?
No, now that I am enlightened to the origins of the word belm, I wouldn't use it. Nor would I use spaz or any of the other late seventies playground pejoratives relating to mental impairment. That is because I am a normal, rational, reasonably pleasant person.
I do however feel the the 'gets offended in case someone gets offended' shite is waaaay over the top these days.
If I am offended by something I say so to the offending person, I don't need someone else to do it on my behalf.
One of my O level english lit texts was The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joesph Conrad which is a classic and an awesome book to boot. I bet nobody gets to read it in school these days because of all this fuckwittery.