"Of course it's about offending people."
The term is offensive is now racially itself - if you refuse to recognise that we have nothing to say to each other Dave (if we ever had)
We have no right to use these terms and claim we don't mean to give offence while refusing Davidsion and Manniing to do the same
It really isn't "the way I tell 'em" - it is what is being told that is the problem
Jim