skepticalbip
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I think you are missing a lot here. Those most vociferous about "being respectful" will call someone (they don't know) racist based often only on the person being white or, worse yet, a white male. The irony is that the most disrespectful among us are those who accuse others of being disrespectful.I think you missed the point. Use words that other people feel are respectful. If a word or phrase is believed to be an insult, then don't use it to describe that group of individuals. It's as simple as that.
As far as your, "Use words that other people feel are respectful." How the hell, in a climate where "acceptable" ideas are constantly in flux, is someone to know what some other person feels is respectful? Few of us are psychic and what one person finds perfectly acceptable another will call 'disrespectful' and vice-versa.
A functional society is a tolerant society and the "social justice" movement is as intolerant of others and other ideas as the old KKK.
I would say that respect for others is tolerance for their different ideas and beliefs of what is acceptable.
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