> It's one thing for someone to simply shout or type a racist
> epithet, and even then I tend to side with the libertarians.
> But when the banners attempt to erase words from the language
> regardless of context or intent, then it's thesaurus throwin' time.
>
I am with you on that. People always poked fun of other people or held stereotypes of groups of people - that is a part of human nature and I do not think of it as problematic. Enticing to violence or intolerance by using these jokes or stereotypes is a different thing, though.
Wojtek