My guess is that you are mistaking student irony and sarcasm for some sort of amnesty for a term that recalls the days when the myth of white supremacy was enforced by the muscle of unjust laws. Why don't you try using it in an African-American neighborhood and see what kind of response you ge? If possible, videotape what happens. Then post the video on YouTube and watch it 'go viral." (And to be clear, what I assume would be funny and popular would be a verbal onslaught and not any sort of physical violence.) As I stated in a subsequent post, I might well use such a phrase when writing or performing humor but I'd be sure that the audience understood that I was satirizing someone who would employ such a term without any sense of their own oafishness. I don't believe in banning any speech.If people can't speak freely, it's so much more difficult to identify the idiots. It's interesting that we are being asked to tread carefully when dealing with the delicate feelings of those who would employ such arcane and offensive terminology. Such compassion is truly touching! I didn't call anyone a white supremacist, I said I couldn't abide them. That said, if the hood fits, wear it. I simply took umbrage that someone presumed that no one on this entire list would respond to such insulting provocation. The term clearly and obviously presumes the superiority of caucasians so hyperbole was not required to attach the language to its source. And by the way, you don't have to be out burning crosses to subscribe to the mistaken belief of one race's superiority over others. Barry Crimmins