So..."can't keep up" isn't a very good excuse for a term that has been considered offensive since before most of us here were born (at least 40 years). We can

So..."can't keep up" isn't a very good excuse for a term that has been considered offensive since before most of us here were born (at least 40 years). We can be civil about calling attention to terms that are offensive, and hopefully people can accept that advice politely and without taking offense themselves. "Can we all just relax a bit." I think that's a great idea. Why don't we all just read the advice not to use "colored" to refer to people, sit with that knowledge (seemingly new for some folks), internalize it, and then move on with our day, with a sincere goal to not use that term in the future? Seems like a pretty relaxed approach to the problem, to me. After all, that's all anyone usually wants when they call out something like this. When a black person says, "Hey, don't say nigger." They aren't demanding you be arrested on the spot. They're calling out behavior that's problematic, and relying on there being good faith effort on your part to be more polite in the future.