i love how people give power to words....at the end, words are just words... what happened in the past is the past and 99.9% of the people on this forum did not live through any of that shit. the only reason that word is still offensive is because people give it power. they use it to their advantage.
quick story, i am a jewish russian and in middle school, some kids used to make fun of me, for being jewish and a foreigner. you know what i did, i laughed, played along, and in no time, they no longer made fun of me for it because i took their power away.