[kabar]

Straightforward? Since when is using a perjorative, racist word for a human being straightforward?

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

[9YearLurker]

I can see why you’d call it pejorative—though taking back such pejorative associations has long been an activist approach, but I don’t see why ‘mongrel’ is racist. I think you’ve bought into their oversensitivity.