Words don’t have to be this blatantly offensive to cause offense. Watching what you say isn’t as easy — or even as all-fire important

By Scott Swedenburg

Some other land mines
“Nigger” is a word most of us find highly offensive; I don’t even like using it in this article. Yet one well-established organization has used it prominently in its fundraising letters. Why would any organization do that? Isn’t everyone going to trash that letter and question the sender’s sanity?