Vashti

The thing is you aren’t the audience. Discussion about anti-Asian racism in English tends to be focused on the experiences of e.g. Asian-American people and on the racist abuse they get from white people.

It’s actually that exact kind of self-moderation, surely? “hang on, doesn’t this word suck, let’s not use it”?

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when “joey” became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.