Well, this is unpleasant:

Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and “Aspergery.” (These are verbatim descriptions; I keep a running list.)  But I had not previously heard Netanyahu described as a “chickenshit.”

(source: The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here — The Atlantic, emphasis added)

It’s important to differentiate between just slandering one person, which is bad, and treating whole groups of people as problems that we can use as bywords in slandering other people.

Someone send the witch-hunters a memo about that, please.  And make sure you’re keeping it respectful, yourself, while you’re at it.

(P.S.  You won’t find me quoting Jefferson often, but he did now and then have a way with an apothegm.)