Arctis J.said...didn't i once read an article on here codemming racial insults?
it's fine as long as you're the one using them, isn't it?
Arctis J.said...found it
http://www.weeklycrisis.com/2009/09/spider-man-and-his-amazing-racist.html
Matt Duartesaid...@Arctis: I looked over the whole article, and the only one I noticed that you could be referring to was "kraut". I wasn't aware that it was a racial insult, since I was familiar with it used in music for "krautrock" and the punk rock band Kraut. I knew that it was a term that was used to refer to Germans, but I thought it was something similar to "Yankee" for Americans (a slang term, but not exactly offensive in of itself).
If you can confirm that "kraut" is indeed the word that offended you (since you didn't outright say which one it was), please let me know and we will edit it out.
Arctis J.said...@Matt Duarte:
Yeah, it was kraut, which is short for Sauerkraut and is still widely used in the UK and other english-speaking countries as an insult against german tourist. It's equivalents can also be found in other countries and languages like the netherlands.
Matt Duartesaid...@Arctis: Alright, it has been removed. I apologize if it offended you in any way, and thank you for pointing it out for us.
I didn't write this review, but like I said above, if someone had asked me what "kraut" meant, I wouldn't have considered it offensive (like "yankee"), and I'm sure that Ryan thought the same thing. We'll keep it in mind for future articles.
Ryan K Lindsaysaid...@Arctis - Hey mate, sorry if the term caused offense. I put Kraut in there two-fold - I agree with Matt that's it more used along the line of Yank or Jerry, that sort of thing. It's slang but I rarely see it used as an actual racial slur (which doesn't mean it's not and so I'm fine with others feeling that way), and also in the context of the sentence it was more intended to be matching the intent of the characters. This team isn't just shooting down a German soldier, they're busting up some Krauts. That would be their viewpoint as that's how the Americans viewed, and called, the German soldiers.
Kraut is the direct relational term to Limey, and that gets used plenty and usually without massive offense.
However, in summation, you took offense, alerted us to this, and we're happy to change it.
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