"I do find the N word very offensive no matter who says it. There is something very ugly about that word that surpasses all other words. "
Having been, at various times, a "Hebe", a "Yid", a "Mockie", or a
"Christ killer" in good standing, I'm not quite sure I agree. Neither, I feel, would the various "Wops", "Guineas", "Spics", "DAgos", "Nips", "Harps", "Poms" and "Chinks" who might happen to congregate at the Mudcat Cafe.
They're certainly not nice words, but their offence, I feel, lies in the malice or lackof same of th people that use them.