Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi View Post
Totally agree with what you've said there but when we make language taboo, new language appears in its place and the problem continues, just with a new term/phrase.

People will always call each other names, we can either continue to ban the new words and harangue those that use them or wouldn't it be better if we just learned how to deal better with verbal abuse? Grow thicker skin and shrug it off? Because it's not like there will come a day when nobody ever calls anyone names.

In my opinion, setting the incident aside as 'banter' and 'nothing to get worked up about' is the exact correct course of action.

Reacting with violence over name calling is a million times more offensive than the name calling itself imo

Very easy to say when you're a white male who will have had very little discrimination happen to you in your life.

Words like "******" and "wog" etc aren't just names they have a lot of history behind them and by comparing them to names people are called on the playground you look at best very naive.