The "C-Word" Is Just As Offensive As The "N-Word"

...as long as you don't call me a "liberal"...

 

That's the most offensive word of all....!

 

How very liberal of you.

 

Just to digress slightly over here if you call someone crackers you are infering that they are mad

 

Over here if you call some a fag you are inferring they're homosexual. In the UK, you'd be calling them a cigarette. Calling someone a cracker in the US is a derogatory term.

 

Not quite so, even here the word Fag was used for gays prior to the word gay

 

Exactly. It's how the word is intended that conveys its particular meaning.

 

"Retarded" used to be an acceptable word, until people decided it was "derogatory". Then they said you should use "special" instead, until that became "offensive". Then they went with "mental disability" and "mentally challenged" and also "mentally impaired", which people again took offense at. Today I see they want to use "developmental delay", which is of course offensive.

My point?

People can either stop being insensitive or stop being so sensitive, but neither is going to happen.

Why?

Because people are retarded, cracka!