I would imagine that the majority of posters on thread are white males, average age 40s or 50s, working/middle class and therefore unlikely to have been on the receiving end of much racial abuse in their time. I know some who have and it isn’t nice. The use of words and language are powerful weapons these days.
I think within some there is a desire to actually be offensive in the interests of “historical accuracy”.
If in order to tell a story of bravery and ingenuity a trivial fact has to be changed – so what?
It won’t be the only factual error in the movie I bet.
Interestingly I have spent a large part of my working life amongst some black but a great many Asians. The majority have, on the rare occasions it has happened when I have been with them, laughed it off and I have been abused by being in their company. People who abuse in that manner are small minded, unintelligent and not worth bothering with. The use of words and language are only as powerful as society allows them to be and the problem is that our ghastly multicultural society has exacerbated the problem.
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