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Daskarzine said:
I'm sure a handful of users would still take offense to the word [removed], no matter how we may have generalized the term in today's society. Even though it may be intended by most to be as a semi-derogatory collective term for people, there are others who'd interpret it as serious racism. Personally I find it quite foul how the word is used today.

If my opinion mattered, I'd voice my agreement in having that topic locked and the work censored.
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Please don't actually say it
 
Why not? He's not using it in an offensive context, he's not slurring anything, he's merely describing how awful it is.
 
Drift said:
Daskarzine said:
I'm sure a handful of users would still take offense to the word [removed], no matter how we may have generalized the term in today's society. Even though it may be intended by most to be as a semi-derogatory collective term for people, there are others who'd interpret it as serious racism. Personally I find it quite foul how the word is used today.

If my opinion mattered, I'd voice my agreement in having that topic locked and the work censored.
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Please don't actually say it
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...What?

This is why I despise the level of quality, mature and valued discussion which takes place here, which isn't what this thread is meant to be about.
 
yeah that's like saying that you can't say swear words when you're infact, against them.
 
I still don't get why YoshiKong can't say that word if he's trying to describe how bad it is. Look, the freaking dictionary has it, WE in the MarioWiki don't censor swear words if they are used in quotes, and any other formal works about the history of the bad words WILL use it. It's just the context of it being used, and YoshiKong clearly wasn't making any bad implications.

Seriously, some of you guys need to grow a back-bone and not freak out if a bad word is used in formal occasions such as describing how bad it is or its origins.
 
Radagast the Brown said:
but it's been out for about two months now

anybody who really wanted to see that movie would have bought it by now and watched it
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that's a terrible excuse
 
Radagast the Brown said:
but it's been out for about two months now

anybody who really wanted to see that movie would have bought it by now and watched it
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weren't you the one saying how you'd see pacific rim "when you get around to it" or something

and how you rarely see movies yourself
 
Can you guys please stop having cross-conversations when other people are trying to discuss something more important? Thanks.

Anyways, I admit I overreacted to one use of the word, but still, a slur is a slur, and since there are people of all races, ethnicities, nationalities here, that can't be allowed.

But my point is that the disallowal of these words needs to be more enforced. I mean, a mod totally skimmed right over that thread.
 
Drift said:
Can you guys please stop having cross-conversations when other people are trying to discuss something more important? Thanks.
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Um, we're allowed to have "cross conversations" as long as what we're talking about is on topic, and discussing whether or not a rule for spoilers should be added is on topic.
 
It's a slur only when it's used in context of a slur. If we're discussing on if we should allow to use it or not, then we should definitely use it to be specific. However, this stuff shouldn't be allowed on day one and I agree on much rougher enforcement

Nightmare Moon said:
Drift said:
Can you guys please stop having cross-conversations when other people are trying to discuss something more important? Thanks.
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Um, we're allowed to have "cross conversations" as long as what we're talking about is on topic, and discussing whether or not a rule for spoilers should be added is on topic.
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The point is already made, it's time to move on