I understand your point and you make a good case from the point of view of a sociological thesis, but as an individual, living in this society, I feel comfortable just dropping the word completely from my vocabulary.
That doesn’t stop me from observing and commenting on the incredible stupidity of the PC elites with regard to this word (not to mention a million other things) and how they are totally fine with Hispanics using it (not people of the same race as the target race, using the supposedly “unusable” target word against the target race, but totally ok because Hispanics can do anything and not be criticized) but go apoplectic if a person of Irish descent (for example) uses it.
So on the one hand, I’ll never use it. On the other hand, I look down on the PC crowd for being so sensitive about it.
And by the way, while we’re on the subject, someone here in FR posted the Arab slang word for “black person”. I forget what it is but supposedly it translates literally to the word “slave”. So you have how many millions of Arabs around the world routinely referring to black people as slaves and you hear what from the PC elites about that?
Because again, Arabs, like Hispanics, can do no wrong. (I just thought of one exception to the “Hispanics can do no wrong rule”, an exception that even applies to the coveted Black Race: voting Republican. No matter who you are, if you vote Republican, you are automatically a racist. Those are PC rules, folks. That’s just the way they are.)
Making that word into a large firecracker is just another tool of the International Communists. It’s the way they divide us and isolate their critics.
Thanks for the reply.
Somewhere on my resume I have a BA in sociology (and a BA in PolySci and yeah, that silly law degree, too) so that may explain my assessment from a sociological viewpoint.