  Another Top Ten List! This one will be debated here and in dark-lit tables or bars for a while. This is my TOP TEN RACIAL/ETHNIC SLURS. Calm down for a second. I, of course, have some sensible criteria for this list. For one, the N-word does not make this list.
The N-word just comes with WAY too much baggage, and honestly, I don't like it. The slurs on this list come from eras past and don't have the same level of history of hate and violence. These are some you might hear from some old coot who's clearly still living in the 1930s. These are for the most part anachronistic to the point that many of us have forgotten their origin. Oh and they strike me as funny. Right or wrong pathetic ignorance is funny.
These made the list not because they're not hateful--because directed at the proper people they clearly are, but they don't have enough hate-momentum, if you will, to be taken seriously. Yes, there could be some serious dialogue as to why some are funny, some are not, or why you or I find one of these more or less offensive. But that's for a different post. Oh yeah. and absolutely don't take this seriously. at all.
Laugh or don't laugh. That is all I ask for. 10. Floppy-Head This is a great image. You gotta hand it to the guys at South Park for inventing a slur for Canadians out of no-where. 9.
Goo-Goo Some of you have no idea what this is. But it's a slur from back during the Spanish-American war when the US fought in the Philipenes. 8. Cracka An off shoot of "whitebread" this one has come into more usage in the last 10 years or so. 7. Wetback Although some might find the idea of a Mexican swimming across the Rio Grande characterized this way kind of demeaning, it's a much better turn then the dudes who try to brave the desert further west on the boarder with New Mexico and Arizona.
6. Camel-Jockey A fun term for our friends the Arabs. My friend Safadi actually has a picture of himself riding on a camel in Syria, but camels aren't nearly as common a mode of transport as we think they are. Oh and they spit. 5. Honky A shot at the poor rednecks who were just bitter that at least poor black folk had an excuse.
4. Gook Sounds funny. And now it only implies the North Koreans. And they only have enough money and energy to fuel their dictator's porn collection. 3. Kraut Now you get on your hot dog or braut, but at one time we didn't like the Gerry's very much at all.
Fought them twice, then sent over 5% of our GDP so that they'd be our friends. 2. Gringo Mi madre dice este casi todos los dias, que me olvido que "gringo" is una palabra irrespetuoso a los Americanos. Ella todavía llama mi papa un gringo cuando el la molesta. 1. WOP I hadn't really heard this one until I was a junior in high school, but it still gives me the giggles.
Firstly, it's derived from "with out papers," the achronym of which was stamped on incoming Italian immigrants at Ellis Island. Pre-Fascist Italy apparently didn't keep good public records and this was a source of ridicule used by other European immigrant groups. You'll remember Hollywood Studio Chief Wallstein from the Godfather, "I don't care how many dago, guinea wop greaseballs come crawling out of the woodwork, Johnny Fontane is not getting in that picture. " Tom Hagen says, "I'm not Italian, I'm German-Irish. " Wallstein finishes, "Well listen here, my Kraut-Mic friend, Johnny Fontane is never gets that movie! " 
