Well except for certain demographic where it’s commonly used. Guess “Stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!” is passe?
Disagree. If they use the word they must be expelled immediately! They know how hurtful it is when they hear that word so they know how hurtful it is to use that word. No mercy should be shown as it is doubly bad for the victim to deliberately use that word.
Yes, it would wreck sports teams and entire studies departments by eliminating their students but if it saves just one student from being offended isn't it worth it?
Oh, man, when I was a kid my hair was strawberry blonde. Got teased every day of my life for my “red” hair. Then as I got SUPER OLD my hair faded to blonde. And all of a sudden instead of red hair temper I am supposed to have suddenly become stupid, with all the old N word jokes, dumb pollack jokes, dumb aggie jokes recycled to be dumb blonde jokes. Same jokes, different victim. I have heard people pick on my beautiful blonde HydroGeologist daughter for being dumb blonde. She is too polite but often feels like sayind, “I took advanced Calculus, Differential equations, Thermal Dynamics, Algebra, geometry, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, etc.... “ And she had to make GOOD GRADES, not just “passing” grades in her field. People assume we are dumb due to blonde hair. My dad, father in law, older sister, mom, and husband all blondes. Husband was Chemical Engineer. Father in law was Petrochemical engineer in the 1940s. Smarties! Crazy being judged for skin or hair color! But now you only can’t make fun of blacks.