No, you are wrong. Only ignoramuses use that word. I have noticed that certain types want the “right” to say it. No one I know uses it and I certainly wouldn’t contemplate using it. If anyone used it around me, I would leave immediately.
You can’t use that word without at least coming across as crude, stupid, myopic and mean. So use it at your own risk. What’s the benefit to you of sounding like a loser?
“Certain types want the right to say it”——what? I thought the First Amendment already guaranteed that.
It’s a racial epithet-—no more, no less, and there are lots of them. I’m sick of the attempts to try and imbue that one word with some sort of mystical, horrific evil.
If anyone used it around me, I would leave immediately.
And if you couldn't leave, would you assume the fetal position, as so many do? That's what gives these race pimps their power - the recoiling of the whites over some word a minority claims to be offensive.
Hell, haven't they ever heard of "Wop", "Kike", "Polok", ad nauseum? Where's all the breast-beating organizations complaining about those hurtful slurs? Oh wait, they shrugged them off and moved on with their lives.
The people who say it, are people who don't care about the reaction of the politically correct. That is why lefties' attitude is that such people need to be destroyed.
What you said...