In most people's minds. However, internet culture very clearly allows faggot and fag, due to how it is kind of normalized and it's offensiveness revoked like "new fag". Nigger is fairly extreme even in internet culture, so I don't have an answer on that yet.
Obscure slurs are actually more enforceable because they are so archaic, the only purpose for using them would be towards offense.
Euphemisms have to be taken on a case by case basis. Joggers, Boat People, New Germans, Basketball Americans; are all cases of very low-offense terms, or in some cases, non-offense like "boat people".
In other words, it's completely arbitrary and based entirely on your own personal biases. Like how you categorically denounce 'zog' when that's more obscure than 'porch monkey'.
In most people's minds. However, internet culture very clearly allows faggot and fag, due to how it is kind of normalized and it's offensiveness revoked like "new fag". Nigger is fairly extreme even in internet culture, so I don't have an answer on that yet.
Obscure slurs are actually more enforceable because they are so archaic, the only purpose for using them would be towards offense.
Euphemisms have to be taken on a case by case basis. Joggers, Boat People, New Germans, Basketball Americans; are all cases of very low-offense terms, or in some cases, non-offense like "boat people".
In other words, it's completely arbitrary and based entirely on your own personal biases. Like how you categorically denounce 'zog' when that's more obscure than 'porch monkey'.
Your boat people privilege is showing, hon