You end up with USHPA.NME wrote:What happens when slander is accepted as normal practice?
Yelling "Whack" is a cultural norm as much as two friends routinely cussing each other out in a good-natured way. It's harmless if it's understood as harmless, and harmful if misunderstood. It's as simple as that.
The class acts mentioned are indeed classy because they don't even want to take the chance of being misunderstood and hurting someone's feelings.