> 200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself? Statistically spea

> 200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself? Statistically speaking, yes, I absolutely would. Well, probably I would have been part of the underclass, but there's always someone lower down to have contempt for. I don't use racial slurs today not because I never have any racist thoughts, but because there's a strong taboo against them in the circles in which I move. There's no such taboo against saying clanker.