So are peoples feelings, and we cannot live in a feeling society.
Some of us were raised that sticks and stones may break bones, and some of us were raised to wine about everything until the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
We can call white men (racist, hitler, fascist, sexist, misogynist, bigot, cracker, etc.) and none of it bothers me, however any other category of person must be protected. Regardless of the white man actually being any of those labels, just by being white, and male they are automatically one or all of these.