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Not a parallel just a quick example (and one of my favourites).
So because some people use Zionist as a slur or code for all Jews, it now can't be used in discourse as some people will take offense? This is exactly what I mean. If someone takes offense incorrectly at the use of 'Zionist' then that has to be their problem, I would happily tell that individual, Jewish or otherwise to stop wetting the bed.
My comment to Punkture was that his pronouncements that Corbyn is anti Semitic made him look a fool. Still stand by it.
salmonchild
Not a great parallel. This is a word that sounds like, but is not related to a racial slur. This situation is about a the use of a term that describes "the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland" (I googled for my own accuracy - source but is increasingly being used as a derogatorily term for all Jews. To then turn around and tell a Jewish person that they shouldn't be offended doesn't sit right with me. This is what you seemed to do to punkture.