Now I
wish I'd planned this as a social psychology experiment. Not having the term is making some of you angry at me, questioning my reasoning or intelligence, and focusing on that which you don't know- the term- rather than the concept it represents. You're ascribing all sorts of extremely negative properties to it- like assuming that if the term actually contained a racial slur, I might still be on the fence as to whether or not it's racist. Like if it was "Guinea pigs" for fat italians, I would somehow think that the slur embedded in it didn't automatically make it racist. Of course it would! lol
Very interesting all around. Keep it up, the nay-sayers have been the most entertaining responses, given that everyone else is taking it seriously and being constructive.
