Which Ethnic Slurs Do You/Can You Still Use?

[Admiral Yi]

I think of this group as high confidence ethnicities.

I use Pom and Canuck.  Mick might not work with Irish Irish but in my experience it works fine with Irish Americans.  I use gringo too.  Yank I object to on regional grounds.  Only New Englanders are yankees.

I'm not going to call a Jew a kike, but I will say something about Jewfros.

Don't get a lot of chances to use frog.  Don't know how that would play.

I won't call a German a kraut but I will say sommething like "that kraut soccer team is badass."

[Barrister]

I don't know if you "can use", so much as it is just pretty antique at this point that it amuses me...

Bohunk.  Slur for someone of central/eastern european ancestry, generally with a "stupid" connotation to it.  And it definitely covered Ukrainians.

[Admiral Yi]

I first encountered Bohunk in Hemingway.  Had to look it up.

[Barrister]

And I've mentioned this one before.  Not an ethnic slur, but a Canadian prison slang slur.

Goof.

Originated as a term for a child molester.  Generally though just the worst insult you can use to someone in that cultural group.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't consider Canuck an ethnic slur. Or any type of slur. Now, Canucklehead, that one's fun.

[Zoupa]

Rosbiff, Yanks, Boches, Ritals.

Apart from Boches, I think they're all kosher.

I was in a bar a few months back when an obviously Rosbiff douchebag asked if I was a Yid when I cheered as Tottenham scored. I had to google that one.

[Barrister]

So sorry Yi if I'm taking the thread in a direction you didn't want to go...

One slur I've encountered since the Russo-Ukrainian war is "khokhol".  It's a russian slur for Ukrainians.  Apparently it has something to do with a cossack hairstyle.

It's no n-word, but it is apparently not okay to use.

[Jacob]

And I've mentioned this one before.  Not an ethnic slur, but a Canadian prison slang slur.

Goof.

Originated as a term for a child molester.  Generally though just the worst insult you can use to someone in that cultural group.

I don't know if it's current out East, but it definitely is in BC. Surefire way to step a confrontation up a few notches and increase the likelihood of a fight if you fling it at the wrong person.

[Jacob]

I think the ones that are still okay to use aren't really slurs... Canuck is not a slur anymore than Kiwi or Aussie is, unless I missed something. Those are just nicknames.

Honestly, thinking about it I don't think I use any slurs anymore... hmm... hadn't considered that. But I can't think of any that I use.

[Jacob]

Rosbiff, Yanks, Boches, Ritals.

Apart from Boches, I think they're all kosher.

I was in a bar a few months back when an obviously Rosbiff douchebag asked if I was a Yid when I cheered as Tottenham scored. I had to google that one.

Well to  be fair, Yid is also one of the historical nicknames for Tottenham fans so asking if you're one doesn't necessarily mean he's a douchebag (though other things could, of course, as you'd be best placed to know).

[Threviel]

I use kraut and frog which to me feels harmless.

And Orc on the other side of the spectrum.

[Admiral Yi]

So sorry Yi if I'm taking the thread in a direction you didn't want to go...

I's a conversational gambit.  It works if it generates conversation.

[Admiral Yi]

Ritals.

Que?

[Zoupa]

Slang for Italians.

[The Brain]

Is Neanderthal an ethnic slur?