> I still find it quite bizarre that the mere utterance of the epithet, even in a sentence like "You should never call someone a <racial epithet> because that i

> I still find it quite bizarre that the mere utterance of the epithet, even in a sentence like "You should never call someone a <racial epithet> because that is extremely offensive" is considered itself racist by younger people. The idea that utterance of a word is offensive isn't uncommon. For example, in the US the C-word is almost completely taboo in common speech. In some other English-speaking countries it is just another swear word, perhaps more offensive than the F-word, but not in a completely different category.