We create the context. Words just pick up meaning as they take on different meanings. Words are Amoral. They are not ethical, or unethical.
People cause offense by the way they choose to use a word. This gives the word more power than it should have because after all, it is a word.
My friend one does not need a magic word to insult another human being. Words help, they are a toolbox, but just as guns don't shoot people, words don't insult people, in both cases people do the action and use the instrument.
Why does this matter? because simply saying that calling someone a cracker is an insult the same way as using the N word (which always gets rubbed out on the site lol) happens not to be true. That does not mean one cannot insult a white person with words though! There just does not happen to be a magic word for that like the N word.
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