Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’ve All Been Waiting For

Interesting read, but I think the author's theory does not fulfil the definition of a 'racial slur', even by his own definition.

Early in the article, Cohen mentions the 'joke', “What do you call a black man with a PhD?...N——r.”, and clearly points out that the racial slur "trumps class, achievement, intelligence, education politics.

But throughout his long definition of the 'douchebag', he specifically mentions white men who are, and white men who are not, and how these classifications are placed upon the individual.

A black person does not have the ability to look upon a racial slur such as the n-word and say "oh, you don't mean me, I'm not x,y,z". A racial slur is a racial slur because it is demeaning not due to character, but due to nothing other than race.