The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I just get fed up with it all, really. If I say "he has a chink in his armor", will all the Chinese people be offended? I don't know...I just way too much is made of stuff like this when the context is not racial.

"Chink in the armor" is a different example. While it's a homonym, that use of chink has nothing to do with the racial slur.

How about another example. In high school wood shop, I refused to let one of the other students have a piece of the wood I was using for a project that I was helping another teacher with. He said, "C'mon man, don't Jew me." Now, he didn't know I was Jewish. And I could tell that he probably didn't have much of a connection in his head between the phrase and the religion. Does that make it okay to use the term, just because he didn't intend it to be racial?