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Originally Posted by debaser
Cool, when I start drawing my sense of morality from a dictionary that might come in handy. As I said, if I know the persons origin I refer to them by that, otherwise oriental is far more specific than Asian.
If I describe a person as Asian, am I refering to someone from Jordan, Russia, Korea or Indonesia? It's a useless moniker, and as such I don't use it.
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I understand that you refuse to accept that language is fluid and, as such, the meanings and connotations of words can change. However, you should still probably at least *appear* open-minded to the possibility that some portion of your vernacular has become outmoded and is now a little insensitive/racist/stupid.
Believing that the meaning/usage of a word never changes connotation and that you are correct simply because it was correct at some point in history is *almost* as ignorant as intentionally using it as a slur.