LOL... ain't that the truth? It really is too bad. They need something better. None of those slurs is even particularly offensive. They just make you want to wave back and say "Thanks! Have a nice day!"
Pretty lame. :-)
I’m Italian. We have some good ones.
Dago, WOP, guniea, goombah, guido...the list goes on.
“None of those slurs is even particularly offensive.”
They become offensive if you and everyone you know screams about it, and it makes the news.
Imagine if the news bleeped out the word “cracker” when that New Bleep Panther mouths off about killing cracker babies, or if a sports figure had to resign for saying he likes cracker with his chowder. “But I didn’t mean it as a slur!” would get him absolutely nowhere. Sympathy would appear to be niggardly for such an excuse.
It’s not offensive because white people don’t want it to be. Some races study “microaggressions” to stay offended about everything.