I get your point Jack but, in Backwoods-World, abuse is abuse whether on the basis of skin-colour, parentage, waist-size, whatever.

Do you think that overweight people aren't hurt when others abuse them by calling them 'Fat Cunt' (exactly as I've been abused on many occasions)? You might see it as just 'name-calling'. I see it, and other similar stuff, as an insult made with the intention of causing hurt, and thus it is abuse.

I make no distinctions between different kinds of abuse, and I do my best to avoid indulging in abuse, whether it be racist, sexist, weightist, sexist, anti-Royalist, whatever.

Abuse is abuse. All kinds of abuse are to be deplored. People who criticise others for one kind of abuse, and then go on to perpetrate abuse themselves are indeed hypocrites. Period.