It begs to ask the question "who is the word really disparaging to"? I grew up in Canada in the 70s, and was called all sorts of epithets, and "slant" isn't ev

It begs to ask the question "who is the word really disparaging to"? I grew up in Canada in the 70s, and was called all sorts of epithets, and "slant" isn't even remotely the most disparaging of the things I've been called. Note my handle as well -- I've been using a variant of it for 30+ years. A white guy gave me the handle "slant" in the mid 80s during the BBS days... and yes, it had something to do with my ethnicity. But I wasn't offended, and decided to own it. Fast forward to the 90s, and the word "slant" was too common to be able take as an alias anywhere on the Internet, so I innocently added the suffix "YYZ" (the three letter code for Toronto's Pearson International Airport). I didn't even realize for a few years that it phonetically sounded like "Slanty Eyes" until a friend pointed it out. I've been lucky to not get any flack for my handle in most places, with the exception of one instance. Some of a white friend's twitter friends (also white) saw a twitter conversation I had with him and told him to tell me they found my name offensive. Which I found to be incredibly bizarre. -- edited fixed grammar issue