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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 643312, member: 780"] The acceptability of these words depend on who is using them and what the context is. But some of our friends on here believe that a slur is a slur and that these words should never be used. "Redskins is a bad word and it shouldn't be used regardless of what people understand by it. It might offend some people and all words that offend anyone should be forbidden." So the "word police" set about to cleanse the language and culture of any offending term in order to have a "more civility". This of course creates a huge fight and ends up creating a more divided society. Some of us believe that this obsession over words is a distraction. It's silliness prompted by the moral vanity of the "word police". [/QUOTE]