Cracker also means the food product — as in Ritz or Triscuit.

Beaner can mean when a baseball is thrown at the batter’s head.

And, for good measure, chink can mean a crack in your dinnerware. (I am Chinese ;-))

These are all words that are only certainly offensive depending on context.

Whereas the N word is only used in the offensive sense. Even when people mean it in a friendly way, it’s a reclamation of the original negatively charged meaning.

So I think YA!s policy on this is fine.

For instance, in Australia, a lot of people still call Indigenous Australians, Abo’s. What they don’t realise is that it is such an offense in some states, while other states are quite backward and don’t think anything of racist terminology. What I just realised as I was writing this, is that the derogatory term for Indigenous Australians has been blocked out also!

If you are offended by the “term” “jap” (which you probably should be as it was an unfriendly term for the Japanese during the war) you should write to Yahoo Answers Customer Services and tell them immediately…

🙂

People in the dog section complain that they can’t use the word b*tch.

I mean here where I live, I never hear any of those words though the N word is heard rarely. So if you’re the person who has the job to program these things in and you rarely hear them and you don’t use them yourself then it probably wouldn’t occur to you to add them.

I seriously doubt that it’s discrimination… globalism is Yahoo’s bread and butter. Look at the bottom how many countries are available. So why would you intentionally alienate your audience?

If it offends you that they aren’t on the list, you can always email them and request they be added. 🙂

all people no matter what race have to share this world i think it’s about time to stop all the nit picking, we are all human and that’s, that.

Edit.

With an offensive attitude like that I can think of a couple of words I could use.

I was trying to tell you I don’t find either term appropriate.

A slur is a slur