(April 23, 2019 at 9:27 am)Losty Wrote:(April 23, 2019 at 9:22 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Don't get me wrong - I know the main racial slurs and the homophobic ones, and I think I'm doing a reasonably good job avoiding them. But pocaracas raised a valid point - not all of the broad assortment of colorful and nuanced terms, that Americans coined in order to demean minorities, is immediately obvious to non-native speakers.
But how is that a real problem? We don’t charge forum bot with going around whacking of the heads of anyone who uses a slur. We have real people behind the scenes and our first course of action is always to let someone know how they’ve violated a rule and what’s expected of them in the future to avoid problems. So maybe someone speaking English as a second language uses a slur and we tell them “hey, we don’t allow the use of that word here” and they say “oh sorry i didn’t realize” ....so....where’s the big problem that arises?
Seriously; there are slippery slope fallacies abound in this thread right now.
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Wiser words were never spoken.