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IMHO - you would be wrong. It is a perfectly good word.

This horse-shit has to stop.

I don't know, you can tell that some people definitely like to play a verbal version of the "I'm not touching you" game, or get off on telling people "actually, it's not a slur". Obviously I'm not referring to what happened to this professor, though

> Obviously I'm not referring to what happened to this professor, though

Why not? He mispronounced a word, and seems to have deliberately chosen it in order to be provocative. There are a million different pause words he could have used instead.

Correction: this horse-manure has to stop :)

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