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On 2012-10-17, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Instead of "diabetic", try inserting the word "black" or "female".
>> There's no shame in those either, yet I think that the offensiveness
>> of either of those words used in that context should be obvious.
>
> To take it a little further, what if I said I got gypped. I think it
> goes to gypsy's. Was it racist?

I told a girl friend once that my laptop had been purloined, and she
thought I was maligning her cat.

Maybe not the same thing.