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Unfortunately there isn't really a full list because that shit changes so often. Previously accepted phrases become slurs and yesterday's slurs get reclaimed.
And it is locational. Something insensitive in the US might be insensitive here in Oz or over in Europe.... Or might not.
That is how idiom works.
Yep. Can be things you wouldn't even think about too. For example the word 'spastic' isn't offensive in the US, but is deeply offensive in the UK, similar to the word 'retard'
Both of those terms are offensive in the US, too. People that use it just choose to not value the input from those that they offend.
TIL, and I'm sorry to hear that :(
This is kind of tangential, but I don't think I ever would have known that "poof" was an anti-gay slur in Britain if I hadn't played Pokemon White. I wanted to.use that as a nickname and had to look up online why the game was preventing me.
Exactly.
The one I always tell about is a yank commedian who, on his first tour over here, lost everyone when he asked for his audience to bend over and pat each other on the fanny. In context, the joke would have made sense in America. Here in Oz, it was far more offensive than he thought it was, and the audience got upset with him, and you could see him realising he lost us. A whole lot of explaining needed doing, for both sides. Apparently he honestly thought he was talking about backsides. Poor sod. Thankfully bewildered American being lynched by pissed off audience wasn't the main event that night....
Odd to think of a land where poof is not a slur. It is a slur here in Australia too.
Yesterday
Cursรจd Saracens did spoil my day
Give us strength to crush those hordes, I pray
Oh, I believe in Huns to slay
Where I live Huns a slur for a protestant.
Everywhere it is a slur for people of mongolian descent.
Not in Northern Ireland a place where people from protestant and Catholic communities were killing each other for 30 years. Educate yourself before you try to correct others. The reason it's used against Protestants is because of the reformation being started by a German. Also hun was used against Germans during WW2.