Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : So a few years ago I was visiting my parents from university (where, admittedly, I’d gone soft and was quite offended by a lot of things). We were about to watch a movie and my dad went to the kitchen to get some snacks. He brought back some liquorice candies that are somewhat shaped like humans and asked if I wanted a “nigger baby”. 

Naturally I was quite shocked by a white guy using a historically brutal word in such a casual way, so I said something along the lines of, “Good god, could you please not use that word?” 

My parents found this really amusing and explained that this is the name they called the candies when they were children and it wasn’t a big deal. I tried to explain my point, but they laughed it off and kept calling the candies by the name they prefer. 

Over the years they still refer to the candies by that term and I’ve taken to ignoring them since they just want a rise out of me, but recently I had a great idea. I’ve spent a lot of time around Aussies and have become really desensitized to the word “cunt”. (We’re North American so this is the holy grail of curse words.) 

So when I was visiting my parents this time and my dad asked me if I wanted some n-word babies I said, “Yeah, I’d like some of those tasty cunts.” 

My stepmom’s jaw dropped and my dad quickly admonished me, saying he didn’t raise his daughter to use that language. I said it was just a word, hoping they’d notice the parallels to their use of a word I don’t like, but man were they rattled. We watched a movie and I tried to make awkward small-talk before bed without much luck. 

Everything is normal now and it hasn’t been brought up again, but now I’m wondering if I’m the asshole for using a word I know my parents hate to prove a point? 