Sure things like "undocumented" are perhaps a little overly sensitive. There are other examples. But there are some very harsh racist words that are better purged from the commonly used language. Let's take the worst example: the N word. Black people use it among themselves to soften its bite; to attempt to desensitize themselves to it. But to them it is still forbidden to non blacks because it is so painful. One word. One word that so encapsulates so much historical suffering. One word so powerful in its meanness that it revives centuries of slavery, murder, rape, degradation and humiliation by simple saying it. And of course there are other harsh racist words in the language. We're better off without them but sadly our current political climate has made them more acceptable.
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Yeah, you kind of do
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