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| Zeus 04/01/17 6:19:30 PM #37: | Zangulus posted... Zeus posted...Hadn't even heard of it as an old racist term. It's like they're digging up stuff people haven't used in a racist way in 50 or 60+ years just to have something to mod. tbh, the only one I knew about was an even older one that was considered offensive which was a derivation of Nippon, although even that one I still don't get *why* that would arbitrarily become offensive in the first place. No, the point IS that nobody fucking knows it. A thing can't be offensive if nobody knows to offend with it or be offended by it. If you have to dredge up some grasping term from 50+ years ago where nobody pays it any heed, then there's no issue with it. As for "a learning moment," what exactly is there to be learned? That literally anything a person says is open to moderation because of something not in use anywhere within decades possibly has an old, archaic, and unused meaning? If so, that's a terrible lesson. --- (\/)(\/)|-| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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