I commented on that back in the “grabher” post.
People are offended by all sorts of things. That’s where the whole “reasonable person” ideal comes from in courts, and even that is a poor method for determining such.
As I said in my earlier comment, context matters. In a mostly-Aboriginal area (and this is Manitoba, so that’s quite possible), the word may have special significance. A lot of that context is lost when you take these discussions outside of the local community and try to look at it in a vacuum.
