[Sherlock arches his left brow. Well, that certainly did illicit an interesting response.]
It's only a word. It carries as much weight as you let it and nothing more. If you want to work in a wizard hospital, get used to slurs. The people who need you are often the ones who strike verbally. Passive aggressive response to helplessness, especially if at the mercy of someone they oppose but cannot deny--like the skills of a muggle-born healer for a pure-blood elitist. I'm intimately familiar with the type but no cry of freak or psychopath is going to make me behave in such a way as to lose my privileges in performing my work. You'd be better off learning to accept the word as merely an indicator of the stupidity of others.
Or, in my case, of a complete lack of concern towards the politically correct. You knew what I meant and knew I meant nothing by it. Stop choosing to be a defensive irritant.
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It's only a word. It carries as much weight as you let it and nothing more. If you want to work in a wizard hospital, get used to slurs. The people who need you are often the ones who strike verbally. Passive aggressive response to helplessness, especially if at the mercy of someone they oppose but cannot deny--like the skills of a muggle-born healer for a pure-blood elitist. I'm intimately familiar with the type but no cry of freak or psychopath is going to make me behave in such a way as to lose my privileges in performing my work. You'd be better off learning to accept the word as merely an indicator of the stupidity of others.
Or, in my case, of a complete lack of concern towards the politically correct. You knew what I meant and knew I meant nothing by it. Stop choosing to be a defensive irritant.