` :::::``Think before you type`` is a useful rule for anybody, including myself. On what basis do you infer that it could be intended as a ``slur``? Your readiness to dig up any miserable morsel of insult in an archived copy of a pre-edited text reveals a paltry, morbid, prejudicial character. No, your unconvincing ``irony`` won't get you out of the trap that you prepared for yourself: humans in The Last Castle have enslaved the Meks. That makes this book ``partially centered around two societies, one human and one alien, one of which has enslaved members of the other, to their mutual discomfort.`` And that is all I am saying, barring unsolicited interpreters of plain English.  `