Racial slurs!

[Angrboda]

There are legitimate reasons, as there are also illegitimate ones.  I got hammered a few years back for using a slur humorously.  And talking about how slurs are used can be cumbersome when they must be avoided.  It's a complex topic, made none the easier by Tibbs and company's prior rulings on the matter.

FWIW, I’m not a huge fan of banning slurs totally (rulz is rulz). The rule as it stands makes impossible to post certain music videos, or to quote particular passages from great works of literature.

But I don’t see anyway around it. If the rule were relaxed, or even amended, waterheads like Pavlov would abuse it and fill their posts with racial, ethnic, and gender slurs just for the hell of it. Even the well-meaning posting of these words would engender almost constant Staff discussions and hurt feelings (‘So-and-so said it, why can’t I?’).

On balance, even though the blanket ban isn’t perfect, it’s probably the best solution.

Boru

It gets a bit tricky when you're discussing a social media use of a slur, and it's not clear from context whether the original slur was spelled out or bowdlerized.