The only cultures/races that have slurs, are ones that have shame.
Think about it. What slurs are there for white people or western culture? Cracker, Honkey, and not much else.
Are those insults? Does a while person get angry when you call them a Craker, or do they smile, maybe even laugh.
Doesn't matter what word you come up with for 'white', doesn't matter how much hate you put into saying it. I will never be offended by being called white.
I have a native friend who grew up on a dry reservation. I can call him anything from redskin to Tonto, he takes it all with pride.
I have another native friend who grew up in a pickled reservation. He gets offended by any word you use, even 'native'.
I think I now understand the difference. And why black people hate any word for black, while nobody has ever been able to create an offensive word for 'white'.
Maybe instead of trying to teach people not to say specific (but always changing) words, we should teach people that there is no shame in being a Cracker, Nigger, Redskin, or a Zipper-head.
If you feel good about yourself, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
If you feel worthless, that's when it matter what others think. But that's not a solution. It does give them something else to focus on and sometimes blame, though.
Disagree? Good, tell me why.
I agree with this. I worked in Bars and Restaurants with all kinds of races, beliefs and cultures. We would tell the harshed jokes to eachother and then laugh. The absurdity of those jokes would often lead to conversations followed by mutual understanding and friendships. It was mostly a positive way to "break the ice", I feel PC culture is making normal communication impossible in the US and hence deepens the trenches and creating racism.
I've been pondering your statement but i think this is a very North-American and skin colour based approach.
If I take Western Europe as an example, we have plenty of racial and cultural slurs going around. Those are much more based on cultural background (country/region) then the color of ones skin. A black Brit will always be a twat or a wanker before he would be a nigger, like an indonesian Dutchmen will always be a cheesehead before he's a peanut. A Chinese Dutchman will call a Chinese German a "Mof" (Dutch slur for Germans) without problems and not really see a cultural connection due to their skincolour.
Those slurs mostly have to do with cultural phenomenons and/or the perception of them by another country/region. Like most of Western EU sees the French as arrogant, The French couldn't care less. Same with greedy Scotts and Dutch, loud drunk Englishmen and Belgian stupidity. None of them really cares much about those though.
Skincolour is much less an issue in Europe then the US, the only exception might be prejudice towards Arabs/Muslims but it's still a much, much more mild variant then in the States even at the worse cases.