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Old 05-21-2007, 03:32 AM   #113
Syd Thrift
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Well, as far as the physical infirmities go, I don't think "Dummy" is in there either, though I could be wrong. And I love how being polite turns into PC if you don't agree with the particular politeness and you are a bolde. I'm not trying to bring the full force and weight of the magical PC Police down upon OOTP, I just don't think it's very nice to include reference to the leader of the Klu Klux Klan, and I fear that not nice = fewer sales. It doesn't matter if African-American members of our message board don't mind; it's still not very nice.

The flip side of this is, it would take Markus and Co. 3 seconds to delete it from the nickname file in the next patch and that would be that. The "delete it if you don't like it" works the other way as well (which was the point of my original post in this thread; you can make nicknames as offensive as you want them to be in your own league using a little tool I like to call the editor tab). Personally, I think it's far nicer to leave racist nicknames out and allow people to add them in at their own leisure than to go the other way around.
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