I don't think the parent was commenting about the existence of racial slanders, just the use of placeholders like "the n----- word".

Yes if your reporting factually the incident it does seem odd to bowderise in this way.

And for those of you who haven't worked on the factory floor the behaviour there differs a lot from the nice and fluffy offices most of us are used to

If you do ask the gypsies, by the way, they very much prefer to be called Roma or Romani.

The G-word :)

Not where I live! What word should we use now?

I dunno, why not ask them?

"Roma" should be a pretty universal endonym, though. If I remember correctly, it basically means "people".