08-30-2020, 10:06 PM
(08-30-2020, 07:15 PM)Wisecrack34 Wrote: Personally I am on Gore and Carb's side, I think that if nobody had noticed until now that it could be seen as offensive then chances are it's non-offensive to 95% of people who even know what it means, let alone could be described as it.
HOWEVER!
I have personally never heard the word before, if it COULD be seen as offensive then I think THAT should be enough warrant to change it, especially considering that a part of Goonstation's appeal is how "clean" it is of the more rude and edgy "humor" that some of the other servers employ (RIP in peace Hippie, you were a station).
With such a large influx of new players joining in, I think we should change it to a potentially less offensive alternative name if it is actually a term used to verbally assault people as to avoid leaving a bad taste in a new player's mouth that could snowball into them leaving from a variety of minor issues.
Yeah that's what I was saying man, I grew up there and had no clue, but this was pointed out by Uranium that it's used to disparage lower class folk. In fairness I feel like there's a new thing I never knew was horrible every other month.
I confess, I am not exactly sure what a good new name for it would be tho.