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I mean, the first racist word I knew about was "Nigger", which I learned about in movies like "Roots" and various Civil War and Eddie Murphy Movies. Actually, I think the first time I actually heard the term was in the movie "Trading Places".
Other terms and phrases I learned much later, for example, the term Kike, I didn't learn that one till my mid-teens or so, I believe it was that movie with Brendan Fraiser in it, where he's a Jewish guy in an all-white school, and they find out and terrorize him, forgot the movie's name. Jap I didn't know was a racist term at all, I thought it was just shorthand for a single headline for the Pearl Harbor bombing, it was in one of my high school textbooks.
Other, more obscure, terms I learned in my 20's, I didn't even know the "proper" slur for my own ethnicity till then, even though it seems pretty obvious after the fact, I'm Irish, the slur is "Mick" and this makes sense, especially considering my last name starts with "Mc".
Not to say I take offense with the term, nor diminish the power of the other terms, its just that, I guess, considering HOW I learned those terms, they have a negative connotation to me by default. I'm a child of the 80s and 90s, what can I say.
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