My last notes on the secondary discussion: I just remember some interviews I've seen regarding this issue and how it's gotten so politically correct...one of the older black gentlemen who was interviewed said something along the lines of "I take just as much offense to being called African-American as I do other terms. I think we should move past that prefix & connotation, as our ancestors may be from Africa, Ireland, and other places, WE personally were born HERE. We are natural-born Americans. Not African-, irish-, chinese-, or what have you-Americans, just simply Americans." and that pretty much sums up my personal opinion on it. Regardless of descent, you are who YOU are, where you are now. Now if only everyone else would look at the mind/personality over skin color and the like we'd all be better off; s'what is nice about the internet, one of the GOOD things about the Anonymity it provides. You act and react to people's personality andhow they present themselves first :p
(As far as "Black" being derogatory...where I grew up it hasn't ever had a bad connotation as far as I knew or believed; I had a bunch of black friends growing up(And Asian to boot) and it never meant shit to me; if someone's a dick they'll be a dick regardless of their looks :p If they're awesome friends they'll be awesome friends regardless too. In a more general view, "Black" shouldn't ever be taken derogatorily unless the rest of the context implies it, as "White" sure as hell doesn't carry the same stigma; I don't get mad if I'm called a white person because I am :p)
As for the main Discussion...yeah I lol'd :p Sometimes I wish they'd enable cross-faction chatting for say a day or week, maybe some world-wide event that either destroys the language barrier or it's disrupted or grants everyone a common language temporarily, and see how "bad" things would actually get if we were able to communicate...spammers would happen obviously but people spam /spit macros anyways, but I'd still like to see it :p
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