So would you defend us white people if the word 'white' was used as a slur?
If this becomes an argument for 'white people being excluded', cry me a river..
This is a majority (or almost majority still), vs. an ultra minority argument.
Lets open up the analogy to radical feminism here. "But as a male I might be excluded from some of their meetings" might be correct, but you dont need a form of self pitty here - because, you - essentially - are barred access to a self help group and thats about it.
I've a - some would say derogative - image pretty vivid in my head currently (having 'visited' a liberal 'elites' online conference recently). And the image kind of looks like this: All the sessions that leaned heavily on feminism to make society more just - were lacking high level participants and people in there, usually werent amongst the brightest speakers. That I made that generalization, might be prejudice, but it was possible.
So in essence, leave them their self empowerment movements, even through you might be excluded, in the bigger context, none of that will ever be important. (People might make it to the higher national political level with that concept, but thats about it. In the space where ideas are king, no one is gonna deal with someone bringing a semantic crutch to an already liberal discussion.)
How fragile are you people if you need to make a rulebook for things that we can't say to people like you?
Beside the point. The word in question was coined and filled with imagery at a time, when the acceptance movement hadnt hit, and when it would have been used mostly derogatively. They got a chance at a fresh start (societal acceptance wise), and bringing up the catalyst for old concepts hurts that. Using the word isnt as 'verboten' as the N word in the societal concept, but hey - be a man and cut them some slack.
