Which Ethnic Slurs Do You/Can You Still Use?

[crazy canuck]

So I am guessing you don't drive much 

[Admiral Yi]

Surely by definition if its acceptable to use its not an ethnic slur?

My thesis is that descriptors can start out as slurs and then over time, combined with laughing indifference of the target group rooted in self confidence (or whatever is the opposite of defensiveness), the terms become defanged and innocuous.

A great example not from the ethnic sphere is "queer."  I'm not sure about Canuck but I believe the others I mentioned at one point or another were intended as insults.

[Admiral Yi]

What is the derivation of Rital?

[HVC]

What is the derivation of Rital?

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rital

I'm French, but basically R.ital was the abbreviation for "refuge italian" after ww2

[crazy canuck]

I'm French

Wanting to be and being French are not the same thing.  Just ask Valmy.

[HVC]

I'm French

Wanting to be and being French are not the same thing.  Just ask Valmy.

Lol stupid phone. Should read In

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting.  So somewhat on the same theme as Wop, which was an acronym standing for without papers.

[viper37]

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."

I sometime use Canuck but not as a racial slur.
The same with Yankee.

Aside that, I'm not strong on nicknames and racial slurs.

EDIT:
There's an expression in Quebec, much less used today, but more in vogue when I was a kid: "working as a n*", meaning you worked really, really hard.  I never took it a racial insult, but apparently it is.  And I've often used it too.

[viper37]

Otherwise yeah it kind of means you are a rude, selfish, piece of crap like everybody born north of Maryland is supposed to be. Your BBQ and Mexican Food sucks. Also you don't like college football. Just the worst.

I'm not entirely convinced people born south of Maryland have better culinary traditions...

[Duque de Bragança]

EDIT:
There's an expression in Quebec, much less used today, but more in vogue when I was a kid: "working as a n*", meaning you worked really, really hard.  I never took it a racial insult, but apparently it is.  And I've often used it too.

Travailler comme un nègre (trabalhar como um mouro for HVC  ) is beyond the pale (pun intended). Nègre is not necessarily a slur, unlike négro, but avoided most of the time. Even nègre blanc, a former synonym of albino(s) is not heard nor heard.

PS: came upon a Québec dub of a Lorenzo Lamas late '80s DTV (masterpiece for you Viper  ) where bamboula was quite liberally used. Dubbing "poetic license" or was acceptable back then? Pretty un-PC nowadays.
Movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102950

Snake Eater II: the drug buster / L'indomptable II : l'anti-drogue

[celedhring]

"work like a Negro" is a reference to slavery, hence the expression (also used in Spain) being pretty racist.

[Josephus]

the only one I use, and am conscious of it, is when I say something like "That guy gypped me."

[viper37]

EDIT:
There's an expression in Quebec, much less used today, but more in vogue when I was a kid: "working as a n*", meaning you worked really, really hard.  I never took it a racial insult, but apparently it is.  And I've often used it too.

Travailler comme un nègre (trabalhar como um mouro for HVC  ) is beyond the pale (pun intended). Nègre is not necessarily a slur, unlike négro, but avoided most of the time. Even nègre blanc, a former synonym of albino(s) is not heard nor heard.

PS: came upon a Québec dub of a Lorenzo Lamas late '80s DTV (masterpiece for you Viper  ) where bamboula was quite liberally used. Dubbing "poetic license" or was acceptable back then? Pretty un-PC nowadays.
Movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102950

Snake Eater II: the drug buster / L'indomptable II : l'anti-drogue

Haven't seen this one.  I believe I have watched most of Chuck Norris, JCVD and Seagal Movies (well, not the post 90s ones), but not Lamas 80s movies.

[Duque de Bragança]

PS: came upon a Québec dub of a Lorenzo Lamas late '80s DTV (masterpiece for you Viper  ) where bamboula was quite liberally used. Dubbing "poetic license" or was acceptable back then? Pretty un-PC nowadays.
Movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102950

Snake Eater II: the drug buster / L'indomptable II : l'anti-drogue

Haven't seen this one.  I believe I have watched most of Chuck Norris, JCVD and Seagal Movies (well, not the post 90s ones), but not Lamas 80s movies.

Bottom of the barrel, with some intended humor however. Campy would be charitable.
For some reason it got a the trilogy got a full blu-release in Germany. 

[Razgovory]

I still use izo, knee-knockers, rigoree. punkle, pie-faced, and skink-eater.