Shalomstreet, I do not think that “goyim” is a pejorative as it means “nations”. In fact, someone told me that he was told that “non-Jew” is offensive because he described the person according to what she is not. For that matter, at one time “Jew” was considered a pejorative (the polite words were “Hebrew” and “Israelite”. Interestingly, when Khrushchev was in Poland after the Soviet occupation he was shocked to hear Jews referring to themselves by a word which is a pejorative in Russian but a polite word in Polish. However, “shaigetz” and “shiksa” are objectively offensive as they come from “shaketz”.
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