An indcident my nephew experienced kind of relates to the question posed in the initial post, which was why can some people get away with certain politically incorrect words, whereas other people can't. At least as far as politically incorrect racist remarks go. My nephew was working with a fellow from a non-white ethnic group who was accused of being racist for something he said that was politically incorrect regarding a different ethnic group. The fellow's response was "But I can't be racist. I'm not white." There you have it. You have to be white to be racist. Of course this in only one incident, but it represents a mind set I've noticed in others as well.
Not that I have a problem with political incorrectness. It beats the heck out of the alternative. I found this incident kind of amusing and revealing though.
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