I'm dubious about the whole "reclamation" of epithets concep. yeah I get the Lenny Bruce concept but it's so corny! "if we all say it enough, it will lose it's power". that's about as deep & meaningful as "I'd like to buy the world a Coke".
One thing I will say though... I don't like it here on ILX when white men call each other "white boy" dismissively. What, you're Professor Griff all of a sudden?
"Middle class" as a putdown sucks too.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link