[Windflier]

If someone thinks it insulting to be identified by your race or heredity, the person who has the problem is the one who thinks he is being insulting by alluding to the subject.

So in your analysis, there's no such thing as a racial slur?

What you personally think of the term 'negro' is of little consequence. The fact is, the vast majority of blacks in this country reject the term, and consider it a racial slur.

[Ohioan]

Certainly there are racial slurs, and simply mentioning a person's race certainly is not one of them--that is unless you disrespect the race by other remarks, at the same time. If you respect the race, how is it a slur to acknowledge it?

Now, I grant you, the Left has sought to demonize any recognition of human differences--that is, with some exceptions. They cannot very well get away with trying to demonize medical practitioners for recognizing that heredity influences susceptibility & resistance levels to various maladies, for obvious reasons.