And to be honest, that's why words like that change in history. They start out as the denotational, objective-sounding term for a marginalized racial or ethnic group, then over time as whatever dominant racial/ethnic group uses them, they get associated with whatever stereotypes said majority has, and then they have bad connotations, and then people think of a new word. That happens for taboo words, too. It's all kind of meaningless when it comes down to it.