Reply #62: open-minded people would look the word up in a dictionary [View All]

and then NOT use, when it is OFFENSIVE...DUer's attitudes to continue using OFFENSIVE terms, and then justify such use based on THEIR right to speak offensively against others...and here in America, it's narrow-minded people with little tolerance that use such words even in the face of KNOWLEDGE, such as shown in Dictionaries here on this thread....there was a time in America, when SOME said it was OK to abuse Black people, or to abuse Jewish people, and NOW, it seems to be OK to abuse people from Pakistan, or others....well, it's NOT OK...even if these DUers argue that it's OK...racist remarks are NEVER OK...

that's what horrifies me....and they laugh about it here on DU...LAUGH about racially offending others...

you are too kind to suggest that the use of racially abusive words doesn't constitute a racist...I simply say that you can tell a person's thoughts by the words that they use (which is not the same as calling them racist, but it is their own racist self-identification, by the words they use)...there are numerous posts on this thread that specifically point out the ABUSIVE, INSENSITIVE and RACIALLY threatening tone of the word PAKI...so anyone here who is NOT racist, and accidentially used such an unaccpetable and ABUSIVE OFFENSIVE WORD will certainly come forward and apologize under the excuse that they didn't know any better...

If no one comes forward...then you have your answer about whether they are racists...here in America, when it's defined in the dictionary as OFFENSIVE, it's OFFENSIVE...