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Originally Posted by haertig
??? This discussion is getting a little hard to comprehend. Please, please, tell me how the word is racist. Sorry, you can't use the word's root - that has already been claimed by the sexist faction. Can words have dual roots? If so, well I guess it's OK to go dig up it's sibling racist root and point that out to me.
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Words can have multiple roots and in quite a few cases, disputed roots.
Though I suspect that what @issybird was trying to suggest was that if you substituted racist for sexist and repeated your sentence, you might find someone who found it offensive. Possibly with changing hysteria to another word.
OTOH, I've been told often enough that since other than a 3 greats grandmother who was or was not status Indian, I lack the ancestry and/or the XX chromosome pair to feel discriminated against and so I am not qualified to even offer an opinion that anything is or is not racist/sexist/whateverist. I will admit to getting a laugh from someone who used the term "peanut gallery" chastising me for my language.