So, I have clinical depression, which I take medication for. I've worked in neurology, my formal education is in psychology and neuropsych, and growing up I've

So, I have clinical depression, which I take medication for. I've worked in neurology, my formal education is in psychology and neuropsych, and growing up I've known more than my fair share of people with some form or other of mental illness. In short, I live it, I've studied it, I know it. Your comment reminds me of someone on a chat channel who had a nagbot that banned the word 'crazy' (amongst others). Why was 'crazy' banned? Because it might offend crazy people. Being one of those, and knowing people like that, absolutely no-one who would be labelled with the moniker 'crazy' would be offended by the word unless it was directed at them. The idea that a schizophrenic friend would be 'deeply hurt' if I said 'the traffic this afternoon was crazy' is utter nonsense. This forbidden word was forbidden by someone who clearly doesn't associate with the kind of people that were being defended. And so it is when your black American engineer types the word 'slave', suggesting that their self-identity is so wrapped-up with the identity of a person that their grandparents grandparents barely knew, that they would find a non-directed under-the-bonnet technical term deeply hurtful. It's disturbing that you consider these people you're supposedly defending as being so incredibly emotionally fragile.