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In reply to the discussion: Wypipo Poll [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)59% said it's not offensive at all.
31% say they don't find it offensive but can understand why someone else MIGHT find it offensive.
Only 11% say that they personally find it offensive
FYi, I didn't post this poll to determine whether people should be allowed to say something or not. I was just curious how the opinions broke down.
But if you think that "we should refrain from insulting any minority of people" on DU, you can start by making sure that your fellow DUers stop insulting minority DUers by calling us race-baiters, insisting that we are "being divisive" whenever we talk about race, lecturing us about how we are overreacting when we object to obviously racist behavior, justify the arrests and murders of innocent unarmed black men with such stupid defenses as "the police had no other choice," claiming that "wypipo" is the equivalent of "nigger,"insulting civil rights icons as "clueless" and "sellouts" because they don't think certain independent politicians single-handedly invented civil rights and aren't forever grateful that he was arrested in a protest 50 years ago, and generally stop with the whitesplaining that has pretty much gotten on our last nerve.
Or, you can just recognize that people who constantly lecture minorities about not being so sensitive need to take their own advice, stop assuming everything that makes them uncomfortable isn't a personal attack and stop acting like a simple, harmless word is the first step toward sending them off to a concentration camp.