I'm wondering just how stupid you are. Of course I don't use the N-word. The notion that the N-word and mutt are equivalent is absurd. Please don't participate here again until you grow a brain inside your skull.

I'm not biracial, but I'm a mixture of half a dozen different European cultures and people like that have been using the word mutt to refer to themselves for many, many years.

To answer your first question, I might go away, but probably only when I feel like it.

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I wrote elsewhere that a simple "Hey, that term offends me so please don't use it around me" would have sufficed. I just don't think that reaction provides the emotional pleasure that freaking out does. Obviously, it's not the right term to use around people you don't know and I don't know…

Heh. I get what's bugging people like you. You want the power to make someone who clearly isn't racist and clearly did not make a racist remark to admit he IS a racist.

The context also includes the little girl in the commercial. She's cute as hell. Don't find her "fuckable" since she's like 7 years old. The reason she was used in the commercial? Because she's cute as hell.

The caps button doesn't make a point more valid. Anyway, I've already admitted it wasn't a word I should have used around people who don't know me. Actually, I've written that about half a dozen times. I simply won't admit it was used in a racist context because it quite obviously was not. You're just not satisfied…

That's fair enough. I don't know you, but if I did I'd probably think you're an idiot, too. :)

You're right. People on the Internet are strangers. Knowing that, as I do, it was foolish to use the word around people who don't know me. But racist? In the context of what I wrote? Of course not. Nice to know not everyone's top priority is feeling better by inventing monsters to destroy. Thanks.

Thanks. With so many having a grand old time trying to invent a racist [we have enough real ones as it is] to destroy, it's nice to see not everyone follows the mob.

It's not just where I went with it. The relative attractiveness of biracial people is a topic on more than one thread in this discussion. Go have a look. Or don't. It'll still be a fact.

I'm not rolling my eyes. I've made it clear several times that I shouldn't have used the word in this discussion forum around people who don't know me well. But I'm not going to admit something was racist when it clearly was not.

Of course not! As I wrote elsewhere, it's not the N-word and to pretend it is is just silly.

Firstly, OF COURSE it matters if I intended offense! How could it not? Suddenly, it is NOT the thought that counts? When did that start?

I agree with that. Good-looking parents tend to produce good-looking kids, regardless of ethnic background.

I live in IHOP territory, but making Belgian waffles at home beats the crap outta both of 'em.

Doc, you're not making any real points here that I haven't already made myself. Go have a look. You pointed out that context matters. I agree. Context matters.

Of course I'm not going to die. I think I've made it clear I should not have used it around people who don't know me. My point is that jumping to the conclusion that I used it in a racist way, particularly in the context of my remarks, is ludicrous.

As I wrote earlier, people who don't like the term shouldn't use it and have the right to ask people not to use it in reference to them. And such a request should obviously be honored. I've heard my biracial friends use it on many occasions and I used it in reference to them, not you or anyone else on this site.…

Don't be silly. I picked out the most obvious one — the one almost everyone who pays attention to things in this country should recognize. We both know 2 minutes with Google would turn up a lot more.