It's not the words themselves, but the ideas described or associated with those words. For example, a number of people will be offended if you use "crude words" to describe sexual activities, sexual elements, or body parts associated with sexual activities. Black people take severe exception to non-black people (not just "whites") using the slang word for "Negros". (And even that word will cause Blacks to react strongly nowadays.)
Firesign Theater had a song that put a number of so-called "hateful" words into a verse, with the end of the song being, "That's America, buddy!" George Carlin had a monologue, "seven words you can't use on radio or TV."
"Sticks and stone will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" -- that's very true.
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Edited
It has been revealed by Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet that “diversity hire”.......
Harvard president Claudine Gay...... plagiarized sections of her PhD dissertation.
These revelations come after Gay testified before Congress and defended antisemitism on campus.
A contretemps ensued on Capitol Hill when Gay’s fellow Ivy Leaguer, U of Penn’s, Elizabeth Magill, intimated genocide of Jews might be allowable, “depending on the context.”
Magill was later relieved of her job.
Earlier, Gay had unequivocally condemned so-called “misgendering” and “failure to use preferred pronouns.”
Gay’s dissertation in defense of her doctoral degree “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies,” published in 1997, “contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation.”
In one egregious example, Rufo and Brunet found that Gay’s doctoral dissertation l
ifted “an entire paragraph nearly verbatim” from a previously published paper on race.
The plagiarized paper was authored by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam entitled “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.”
If you say the same words to many people some will get upset, some will get angry. And some will not care at all. It is the individual’s decision about it that makes the difference. Low scale people are more affected by words. But the words are still just words. They are a window to the soul of the speaker.