I think you're good at heart, but you are wrong here. Words carry meaning, not only the meaning we each attach but also the meaning that is imposed on us. By yo

I think you're good at heart, but you are wrong here. Words carry meaning, not only the meaning we each attach but also the meaning that is imposed on us. By your logic, white folks should be able to say nigger without black folks being upset about it, which is an absurd result of your premise. Constantly maintaining a clear separation of symbolic meaning (words) and actual meaning (reality) is what monks and yogis do in a sense. It's a life-long discipline to do it perfectly, and it takes a lot of energy. The energy expended to constantly separate words from meaning is an unfair burden on certain classes.