The movie Gran Torino came out when I was twenty, and in seeing it, I heard many racial slurs uttered in context for the first time. I was, of course, familiar

The movie Gran Torino came out when I was twenty, and in seeing it, I heard many racial slurs uttered in context for the first time. I was, of course, familiar with the "main" ones, but the one in particular that I remember was "spook". I remember it vividly because, upon hearing it, I had an immediate realization that I had heard it before when it was said near the end of Back To The Future (the scene where Marvin Berry and the Starlighters chase off Biff's gang). In my youthful innocence I had assumed the characters in the movie were trading silly, made-up names (e.g. "Who are you calling "sparky", Popeye?"), not racial epithets. The fact that this list needs to exist makes me sad, but I am glad technology can assist on some level with the issue.