Yes but the word "Negrow" would offend more that one person.Originally Posted by Merander
tbh its how sharp Blizz are and in some case they arent that sharp..
We have a reknaw in our guild for quite some time now :-\
You seem not to be playing for long time, since there is a real galore of names in WoW thatOriginally Posted by Ascendant
perfectly fit your description, it is as ppl try to make char names most retarded as possible,
and they are pretty successful.
Bigger than Life.
Geeze man, just because someone named their toon "Cracker", I wouldn't be all pissed off about it. I wouldn't even get aggravated about one named "Dumbwhiteperson". As long as the person wasn't running around screaming "Eff white people!" all of the time, it's whatever.Originally Posted by Nixia
If you all think Negrow is bad you havent met Holocaust yet :-\
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Passive racism is still racism. Not trying to get at you, but I'm just adding my opinion to the discussion. Besides, I'm pretty sure "cracker" has a more mainstream usage as a food. I rarely hear the term used when it doesn't describe a food. "Negrow" or "Negro" has no used meaning other than as a racist term.Originally Posted by Kentukyfried
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Alright, yeah, that's a bit bad. I'm not jewish or anything, but that's still not good. That's a little different because it is based on a historical event where people died, lots of people. I see that as something totally different than someone using a name like Negrow or Cracker or something along those lines.Originally Posted by Merander
Just because I don't like stupid nicknames doesn't mean I haven't played WoW for a long time. Your point fails, thus you fail.Originally Posted by Djolisimo
He even made it to level 30 with this nameOriginally Posted by Kentukyfried
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Was involved in the RP Invasion
/Brofisting Vol'Jin
Well, it's just like everything else in the world, it starts out as something else and morphs into something ugly. Negro is actually the root of the word black, and I believe that some languages still call the color black "negro". And back in the day, people called black folks negros, then called them black, then now we have went to the politcally correct "African American", though a lot of people still say "Black".Originally Posted by losfer
Just like the word "Gay". Used to mean "Happy" back in the day up till I think about probably the 60's or 70's, then it turned into meaning homosexual. And then after it was used as a term for homosexuals, it turned into a "diss" for someone that you didn't like or thought was stupid. I really hate it when people use the word "gay" like that. Whenever someone says something like "That game is gay", I say "I was not aware that a game could have a sexual orientation" and it pisses one of my friends off every time I do that. But it pisses me off when he uses the word in that way!
Most of the people who will find this offensive are White people who wanna be Political Correct not the black people. You know its true
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In the english language, yes. I wonder if it'd be okay to name your character Negrow on a spanish serverOriginally Posted by Heljak
Ok what is "nick" and why do I keep seeing it used in place of pick in this thread? Is that a euro thing? If I help all these people that want to use negrow as a name nick new names will that make me a "nicker"? ;D
Anyhow as most will learn anyone can be offended by anything... Why even go there?
Nerf teabagging!Originally Posted by Zehlkatur
true! here is proof.Originally Posted by Merander
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/we...28-2007/n-word
You know, I have noticed that a lot of times now that you bring it up, seems like white people are touchy about this. I know a black guy in game that used to be in the guild that I used to be in, I will have to ask him about this.Originally Posted by Merander
If there are any black people here and I have offended you with this topic, I apologize. It wasn't meant to turn into a big war or anything, was just something that I brought up just to be bringing up in the wee hours or the morning.
I should have remembered that it's hard to have a real conversation here without someone getting all pissed off over something and wigging out!
Alright, I just watched that piece. The MOST interesting thing that I noticed about that was that the white guy never said the N word, but the guy who looked like he was black or part black said it all the time. Interesting?Originally Posted by linros
Anyway back to the topic...
I can only tell on my opinion and what i saw about the whole "Nazi Talk" in germany most of the people who are offended by them are Germans themselves i know jew people who laugh about Nazi jokes and names like Judolf KreditlerOriginally Posted by Kentukyfried
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You make a very good point now that I think about it. When you mentioned the whole "Holocaust" name thing, I was also guilty of doing it. I don't think that's funny at all, but I am not Jewish and do not have anyone in my whole family tree that is Jewish. Though referring to a tragedy where loads and loads of innocent people died and talking about some stupid slang term are on a bit different levels!Originally Posted by Merander