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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
There's a difference between insults used by a person of a more privileged category, and one used among peers.
My children are welcome to call each other brats. Their teachers are not welcome to call them brats, no matter how annoyed the teachers are. People in positions of authority or social privilege should not abuse their power by insulting those who cannot react freely without potentially vile consequences.
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"More privileged category"??? The flip are you talking about?!?!? *MY* parents are - on my mother's side - dirt-poor immigrants from Potato Famine Ireland and - on my father's side - peasant and serf stock from the Austria region. They settled in Montana and northern Ohio where they busted their collective butts off to survive. Privileged? I wish! The only time I've ever had a silver spoon in my mouth was the one time I got to stay over at a well-off friend's home for a week. In the US, I've lived and held the same jobs as those "unprivileged" minorities. It's not their minority status which has held them down since the 1960s, it's their belief that they deserve handouts rather than putting in the same work the rest of us do.
Derek