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Really Sky - come on !! Player names.........
choco_wall
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Imagine my surprise to sit at a table tonight with someone with the user name sambo_42.
I'm quite a liberal sort of person, you know letting people express themselves freely etc. However, i do draw the line at certain references, especially in todays society. The use of the word sambo is one !
Let me show you a dictionary definition of the word :
Sambo is a dated name in American English derived from a term for a person of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. The name then came to be applied to Black persons of various degrees of European admixture: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc., in American[1] and British English.[2]
As a proper noun in present-day English it is likely offensive, particularly if used as a term of address.
Please could you review your policies on some of the terminology used in one or two of the players names ? it is 2020 after all.....
I'm quite a liberal sort of person, you know letting people express themselves freely etc. However, i do draw the line at certain references, especially in todays society. The use of the word sambo is one !
Let me show you a dictionary definition of the word :
Sambo is a dated name in American English derived from a term for a person of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. The name then came to be applied to Black persons of various degrees of European admixture: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc., in American[1] and British English.[2]
As a proper noun in present-day English it is likely offensive, particularly if used as a term of address.
Please could you review your policies on some of the terminology used in one or two of the players names ? it is 2020 after all.....
Comments
Sambo is a type of martial art.
Sambo is a common nickname for somebody with the surname Samuel.
There are probably a bunch more uses.
Perhaps you should suggest we remove the colour black or brown from society too?
Just get on with your day and take that chip off your shoulder.
You are definitaly correct with one or two of your assumptions
No there is a dance move called the Samba
Yes there is a Russian Martial art called Sambo
No i can't find any reference to it being a "nickname" for Samuel
Yes i think you'll find that in the majority of cases here in the Uk and further afield, it's used as a racial slur on people from the black community.
But its a good job im more ignorant than you !!
If someone being called Sambo offends you then you are going to spend your whole life furious.
Liberal people are what's wrong with society today, taking offense to every single thing they're not happy with when they twist it into their line of ideology.
I would literally lump every penny I have that this guys name is Sam and sambo is some form of nickname for him.
Needless to say it was not a racial slur, lol
Do you not see the obvious flaw to this?
As a matter of course, confirmation of context can only be determined by the effectuator.
Are you on Twitter? If not, I recommend you get on there immediately, you'll love it.
We did never come up with a nickname for him.
I am sure civilisation will not end if the player has to change his name to Sammy42, Samba42 or SamBoy42 or whatever.
Oh....it starts with a D, not a B. Carry on.
I've seen some diabolical threads down the years but this one has to be one of the worst.
What about this list ?
The first words that popped into my head for research purposes.
Anal offends me (unless its true love).
You'll have to scratch Analogue too, even though its innocent the word is there.
Threads like this make me despair.