On Wed, 27 May 2015 10:57:14 +0000, Huge wrote:

What I find odd is just why racists object to being called racists?

They don't. But normal people who are not find it very offensive

Does the term have any currency any more? It's been
misused/abused/overused so much it's just meaningless noise.

Those on the receiving end might disagree.

But for this kind of debate, I prefer "xenophobe" or even just the more
wide-ranging catch-all of "bigot".