How come the ethnic slurs for white people are pathetic?

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Spazzy_D said:

Eh, I'm sure "white guilt" has something to do with it too, but (as this thread points out)  white people don't seem to take too much offense to it.  Maybe its also this whole nebulous "white people" thing.  Most honkeys don't consider themselves ethnically white, they identify with what ever European heritage they have.

It is probably true that many recent immigrants to the US that are white might identify with a certain European origin. But in my case and many other white people's case our ancestors have been here so long that we have tons of different heritage from many European countries and even part of other ethnic groups. So I would say the situation on how whites define themselves ifs very different because since I am :Finnish, German, English, Irish, Spainish, Dutch and Mexican I can hardly define myself as having large rootsin one  of those countries. Many white Americans have similar backgrounds so I believe many of them still closely hold ties towards defing themselves as white.