So i find this a little offensive...

light2113 wrote: »

Thank you all for looking, just yesterday I was like maybe someone just shortened it so i'll let them off but nope there all saying the word and the staff. Raccoon would be the wise choice, I mean how come this was overlooked anyway? I thought there would be some way of knowing what the word ment before hand?

DarkSkiesx - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Contradicting yourself.
Read my posts entirely and don't quote only parts making it seem like I contradict myself. The word means more than just the racial slur, and anyone with half a brain cell would see it means raccoon in the context used that OP complains about.

For the record 'playing the racism card' is when one party irrationally accuses the other of being racist attempting to invalidate their logic and ignore their argument. Here it's clearly a racial slur which you admit to yourself, so there is no debate on irrational accusation of racism.
No, I said it CAN be a racial slur, depending on context. I said in PWI it obviously means the raccoon.
Hence no racial cards are being played.
Which means the racial card is being played.

With regards to the list Sylen posted; context is important here, when someone says crow they are 99.9% of the time talking about the bird, when someone says coon instead of raccoon it's not the same thing. Or do you regularly say coon referring to raccoon? "Lemme do my coon dailies." Thought not.
When someone says coon i assume the word is meant for the cat race, because i'm a cat person. I bet most people don't even know that coon could be used as a racial slur until someone goes all MUH RACISM

My reasoning for proposing for it to be censored is because there are plenty of closet keyboard warrior racists spamming the word in world chat across multiple servers at the moment due to the item name, or do you feel that your right to free speech is being infringed upon as you won't be able to say such an obviously racial derogatory slur openly?
Just because people are ******* doesn't mean PWE is at fault, what should happen is that those people get silenced, but what are GM's lol.
Then again, world chat has seen much, MUCH worse.

I'm not even black and I find it offensive. It's a word that was openly used to slander black people by the likes of the KKK when lynching was a pastime in the US, which wasn't even that that long ago, so much for civilised societies.
Again, may as well censor almost every word on sylen's list, because someone is offended somewhere about something all the time

Before you get all offended I'm not accusing you of being racist, more like mildly ignorant/apathetic.

DarkSkiesx - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Contradicting yourself.

For the record 'playing the racism card' is when one party irrationally accuses the other of being racist attempting to invalidate their logic and ignore their argument and gain the moral high ground. Here it's clearly a racial slur which you admit to yourself, so there is no debate on irrational accusation of racism. Hence no racial cards are being played. With regards to the list Sylen posted; context is important here, when someone says crow they are 99.9% of the time talking about the bird, when someone says coon instead of raccoon it's not the same thing. Or do you regularly say coon referring to raccoon? "Lemme do my coon dailies." Thought not.

My reasoning for proposing for it to be censored is because there are plenty of closet keyboard warrior racists spamming the word in world chat across multiple servers at the moment due to the item name, or do you feel that your right to free speech is being infringed upon as you won't be able to say such an obviously racial derogatory slur openly?

I'm not even black and I find it offensive. It's a word that was openly used to slander black people by the likes of the KKK when lynching was a pastime in the US.

Before you get all offended I'm not accusing you of being racist, more like mildly ignorant/apathetic.

comeonnow wrote: »

make it lil cracker *<-- click it* \o./ im white and i would lmao xD who wouldnt wanna turn into a cracker in game b:shockedb:shutupb:surrender okie ill be good now all joking aside its ment to be raccoon like everyone else has said why race sex gender has to be brought into every thing now adays is getting beyond ridiculous

Nahktuul - Archosaur wrote: »

Give me a break. This is the stupidest thread I've seen posted on this forum for quite some time. Only the baby boomer generation knows that 'coon' was used as a racial slur in the deep south of america. I fail to see any resemblance in the two uses.

People need to stop being whiny little babies and get over themselves. You don't give a **** about slavery, bro. If you did, you'd think twice about buying those Jordans or whatever dumb fashion item that was made by an enslaved child in a sweatshop. Your great, great, great grandpappy that was a slave? Yeah, that happened. Past tense. Get over it. Move on. Get a life beyond holding grudges against something that has long sense been dealt with.

Mods: Might be a wise idea to close this thread before it erupts into a fiasco.