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Subject: "Jew" should be a censored word. (please read)

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Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I haven't really seen the word "Jew" used as an insult on the forums, actually now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever really even seen the word used here.

It's not a problem here because most of us aren't preteens who think South Park is the epitome of all comedy, and Cartman's insults are the basis for all others. (I can't stand South Park for this reason)

  • 09.07.2011 12:53 PM PDT

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The word noob is offense to new players so it should be censored as well.

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How about the word "Dick"? I don't think i've seen that referring to a persons name since 2008.



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  • 09.07.2011 12:58 PM PDT

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Jew is not a Slang word, though? So why censor it?

  • 09.07.2011 1:04 PM PDT

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The word "Jew" is not an insult by nature.

Why don't we just ban Muslim, Arab, Caucasian, Black, and whatever racial, religious, or ethnic names as well? Surely we can find a way to make those insults as well.

  • 09.07.2011 1:06 PM PDT

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It's not that Jew should be censored. It's that orientations pertaining to sex shouldn't be.

  • 09.07.2011 1:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: Killed by Pasta
The word "Jew" is not an insult by nature.

Why don't we just ban Muslim, Arab, Caucasian, Black, and whatever racial, religious, or ethnic names as well? Surely we can find a way to make those insults as well.

neither is the word for being attracted to members of your own sex, but it's still censored

  • 09.07.2011 1:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Halo53
So if there is a discussion about backgrounds, or religion is brought up as part of a discussion in a private group, and someone wants to mention that they are Jewish, they are going to be filtered?

Not only is that one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard, but now you'd start to offend some people by saying their religion or ethnicity is inappropriate. What's next, censoring the word black?

This is pretty ridiculous, and a terrible idea. Filters are meant to punish people who inappropriately use language, not to prevent intelligent people who can handle the responsibility of using words from having reasonable discussion. Not only is your suggestion a bad one, I'm sure that some people would be highly offended


This. I think the synonyms for non-hetero-blam!- and Third Reich member should also be unblocked.

  • 09.07.2011 1:22 PM PDT

He has a point

  • 09.07.2011 1:31 PM PDT

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Way too many censored words that shouldn't be as is. No.

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Jew, Jewish, etc. There isn't really any need to censor those words, cause Religious talk isn't even allowed anywhere here.

  • 09.07.2011 1:45 PM PDT

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I do think it's a bit dumb how he can look at words like -blam!-, and think people will ACTUALLY use that word in a positive manner.

Just censor it, man...

EDIT: HOLY -blam!- he actually censored it...

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People use the word to refer to somebody as being an evil, greedy, piece of crap.
Yes. In the fifties, and occasionally by that one racist grandparent at parties.


My point is if you are going to censor an otherwise harmless word just because it can be used as slang or to insult others, you may as well censor "Jew".

It seems you missed that part where Achronos said often. Some words are used more frequently to insult than they're used otherwise, so it makes sense to censor them -- which does have the benefit of informing new people that language and insults aren't welcomed here -- while some words like Jew are just rarely used at all. Those words aren't worth censoring.

You might also want to take note of the fact that "I think we should remove some words from the ban list" and "I don't think we should increase the ban list" aren't the same statement. You want to go from "We've agreed that adding this word would be stupid" to "Therefore we should remove these other words", which is just a bad argument.

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jew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I haven't really seen the word "Jew" used as an insult on the forums, actually now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever really even seen the word used here.

It's not a problem here because most of us aren't preteens who think South Park is the epitome of all comedy, and Cartman's insults are the basis for all others. (I can't stand South Park for this reason)

South Park is actually an incredibly intelligent satire, however many of it's fans don't recognize this. When people use the word Jew as an insult because they saw Cartman use it on South Park, that truly shows how incredibly ignorant they really are.

  • 09.07.2011 2:54 PM PDT

That's just ridiculous.

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Posted by: Killed by Pasta
The word "Jew" is not an insult by nature.

Why don't we just ban Muslim, Arab, Caucasian, Black, and whatever racial, religious, or ethnic names as well? Surely we can find a way to make those insults as well.
Exactly what I was thinking.

What should I call them then? Followers of Judaism? That's too much typing and it seems awkward.

  • 09.07.2011 3:18 PM PDT
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Sorry, haven't seen many people use that word as an insult. So no.

  • 09.07.2011 3:20 PM PDT

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Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

How stuff is picked for censoring is beyond me.

  • 09.07.2011 3:23 PM PDT

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It depends on how jew think they're using the word.

  • 09.07.2011 3:26 PM PDT

It is a little hypocritical that 'ghey' is censored and Jew isn't, but there's no reason to make it worse.

  • 09.07.2011 3:27 PM PDT