Thread:75.108.127.161/@comment-4010415-20161122001724/@comment-25936766-20161122011148

GreyStark wrote: "No slurs" as a general rule prevents anyone misinterpreting it if it isn't used maliciously. How so? How does it prevent people from thinking it was meant to offend if it isn't used maliciously?

If anything, it does the contrary. By taking the "better safe than sorry" route, every use of the word is treated as racist even when not meant to be racist, for good and ill.