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You can be anything
I just avoid it. you never know who around you may want to feel oppressed that day. besides given the history of the word.. and the history of whites/blacks in this country.. im fine not using it. I really don't have any need to insult someone based on race. it's the people who get mad at for saying retard that I cant understand. attacks based on intelligence or lack thereof are good enough for me.
I think the problem with retard is that it is attacking a learning disability.
There are so many ways to attack people with words it seems silly to inadvertently offend an entire group of innocents.
That being said if the word ****er offends you when somebody says it then do not say it yourself.
If people want to be treated fairly and justly then drawing lines to separate the people is a really stupid thing to do, 1 group of people being allowed to use a word based on skin color or sexual orientation or disability is still acknowledging that they are different, how is that going to end the inequalities?