darth_ender said:
It would be good to actually read the books. Humanity is afraid of these aliens because of their frightening insect-like appearance and their seeming relentlessness in their assaults on humanity, and thus they earned the nickname "buggers".
It is just hard to take it as coincidence that the nickname for his alien species also just so happens to be a dirty word meaning "ass fucker".
That is great he was a huge opponent of racism.