" to disown responsibility for one's words. "

Exactily wrong Peg... It's to take responsibility for ones words! To know what you're saying and for what reasons...

I have nothig agains people who make the consious decision to stop using words like are mentioned above... What I have a problem with is Language Nazis who think they can tell ME what words I can and cannot use...

Make you your mind for yourslf, and leave me to do the same... If we disagree... well... good... What a boring-ass, PC, white-bread-and-cracker world it'd be if everybody agreed all the time!

Tedham... I don't think that racist is a BAD word... I think it's an inaccurate word... To me, the trem racist has no meaning because as I said, we're all one race... I thing the word bigot is a better word to use to describe the kind of person who judges on the basis of skin tone and ethnic background... But that's just me...