What's amazing is that a few of you keep hurling these slurs, thinking it will affect me at all.

A few others have given up, deciding, quite correctly, that they won't. Do you honestly believe that I care in the slightest what some anonymous doorknob on the internet thinks of me? Plus, I understand well how disarming it is for folks like you when the targets of your slurs are completely nonplussed. That's your go-to move. It's like taking the sky hook away from Kareem. Then you're just standing there, naked.