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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663073

Morgan wrote:

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In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

But it is a British English community not an American English community, making the assumption that Spook is racist (which it is only in the US) again false.

It's an international community.

Once again, you're taking it from the points where it is a racial term, yet you ignore all the countries It's not a racial term in. Not really taking everything into account, are you?

You could just flip that argument and use it the exact opposite way, not considering the massive offensive the word has in America would not be taking an international view on this.

By banning the name you've just made the nickname more infamous.

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663074

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

But it is a British English community not an American English community, making the assumption that Spook is racist (which it is only in the US) again false.

Where does it state that? From what i know not a single server is hosted in the UK.

*Cough*

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663075

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

Exactly English not American yet a user name is not allowed because of American slang

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663078

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

But it is a British English community not an American English community, making the assumption that Spook is racist (which it is only in the US) again false.

Where does it state that? From what i know not a single server is hosted in the UK.

All except SSRP S3 are hosted in London xD

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663081

TheXnator wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

But it is a British English community not an American English community, making the assumption that Spook is racist (which it is only in the US) again false.

Where does it state that? From what i know not a single server is hosted in the UK.

All except SSRP S3 are hosted in London xD

Hmm i though they were hosted in France but whatever xD

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663084

Apparently now you're all trying to make the argument the community is UK based and so are the servers but it isn't true and the same argument can be made.	Sora- Offline Legendary Member Capsule Corp. Posts: 756 Thanks received: 626 Karma: 12
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663086

SoraJS wrote: Apparently now you're all trying to make the argument the community is UK based and so are the servers but it isn't true and the same argument can be made. No shit the american server is hosted in america	Lewis_is_java Offline Adept Boarder Λεωνίδᾱς Posts: 7205 Thanks received: 4709 Karma: -65
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663091

AA RFLeX wrote:

TheXnator wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

But it is a British English community not an American English community, making the assumption that Spook is racist (which it is only in the US) again false.

Where does it state that? From what i know not a single server is hosted in the UK.

All except SSRP S3 are hosted in London xD

Hmm i though they were hosted in France but whatever xD

They used to be, we changed host a while back though

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663092

SoraJS wrote: Apparently now you're all trying to make the argument the community is UK based and so are the servers but it isn't true and the same argument can be made. 1 > 2 NA Education bois	pigskin Offline User is blocked uwu Posts: 4807 Thanks received: 1440 Karma: -12
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663093

I Fail to see what is so offensive I can think of many peoples names in the community which has a more offensive alternate meaning. unless it's used in an offensive context why does it matter what name people have?	luke_ Offline Legendary Member -0121- Posts: 2136 Thanks received: 1144 Karma: 9
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663095

From what I'm gathering: The staff team are perfectly happy to discriminate against perfectly innocent people to try and please a different very vocal minority of players.	exrobite Offline Loyal Boarder dont have a cow man Posts: 8905 Thanks received: 2489 Karma: -31
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663096

exrobite wrote: From what I'm gathering: The staff team are perfectly happy to discriminate against perfectly innocent people to try and please a different very vocal minority of players. T R I G G E R E D	Lewis_is_java Offline Adept Boarder Λεωνίδᾱς Posts: 7205 Thanks received: 4709 Karma: -65
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663098

exrobite wrote: From what I'm gathering: The staff team are perfectly happy to discriminate against perfectly innocent people to try and please a different very vocal minority of players. Yeah, I guess so. I'm not going to be part of it though.	Kemi Offline Legendary Member Collateral is my favorite kind of damage! Posts: 1932 Thanks received: 757 Karma: 40
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663099

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

And keep in mind, the original english language, the original place of the english language, has NOT ever had that word as a Racial slur.
the word "Spook" in the english language, is todo with a ghost/scare. and that dates to a very long time ago, which is still it's definition today, AND even in the English dictionary is listed with that, NOT a definition, that simulated from america.

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663102

Just change your name to smoll spooky?	ParaMontana Offline User is blocked Posts: 5541 Thanks received: 3172 Karma: -1047
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663104

ParaMontana wrote: Just change your name to smoll spooky? The point we're trying to push forward is, that there was nothing wrong with his name at all.	Kemi Offline Legendary Member Collateral is my favorite kind of damage! Posts: 1932 Thanks received: 757 Karma: 40
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663106

Well that's not really the point here, Para. The point is he shouldn't have to change his name to ANYTHING else, because the name change in my opinion, is uncalled for.	Dramn Offline Senior Boarder Rawr! xd Posts: 619 Thanks received: 242 Karma: 10
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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663107

Anon_Gaming wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

And keep in mind, the original english language, the original place of the english language, has NOT ever had that word as a Racial slur.
the word "Spook" in the english language, is todo with a ghost/scare. and that dates to a very long time ago, which is still it's definition today, AND even in the English dictionary is listed with that, NOT a definition, that simulated from america.

If we're taking that argument wouldn't that make a vast majority of very common racial slurs allowed then?

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663110

SoraJS wrote:

Anon_Gaming wrote:

AA RFLeX wrote:

Raeker wrote:

In Dutch "Spook" means ghost, so if I start talking in Dutch and casually mention a ghost movie I'm suddenly racist????

Also, "Spook" is sometimes also an actual name people have. Are they suddenly racist for having parents that gave them their name?

Keep in mind that this is not a Dutch speaking community and that its an English one.

And keep in mind, the original english language, the original place of the english language, has NOT ever had that word as a Racial slur.
the word "Spook" in the english language, is todo with a ghost/scare. and that dates to a very long time ago, which is still it's definition today, AND even in the English dictionary is listed with that, NOT a definition, that simulated from america.

If we're taking that argument wouldn't that make a vast majority of very common racial slurs allowed then?

Name one

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NAME CHANGE?! 7 years 3 months ago #663111

Wait small spook is racist wtf lmao why is every word racist now	SorIe Offline Marvelous Boarder Posts: 10840 Thanks received: 4296 Karma: 400
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