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The Racial Slur Database

Ok, I know it may seem like a weird resource to share, but bear with me.

Some people, such as myself, aren’t interested in calling people slurs, meaning we aren’t the most familiar with derrogatory terms. So what do you do if you’re reading or watching something and a term comes up that you know is supposed to be derrogatory but you don’t know to who or why the term might exist?

Or what do you do if you’re a writer and you have a racist character but don’t know what term they might use?

Or what if you wanna check if something is a slur or ok to say?

Or maybe you just want to educate yourself to better be able to pick out the racists in the crowd or are wondering where a racist term might come from.

Now you have somewhere you can look.

How it works:

It breaks down slurs by nationality, regional area, and ethnicity (e.g. “Icelanders“, “Central Americans”, “Black Russians”) in alphabetical order.

They also have some religions as well, such as “Jewish”, “Amish”, “Mormons”, and “Hindus”.

They also have a special section listing words related to immigrants as a whole regardless of race.

The entries have the slur, who it represents, and its reasoning/origin, and often include slurs used in other languages as well.

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