Faction name HAF

[sovereign]

OKAY!

Settle down.

First off, the adjective form of Hispania is, in fact, Hispanic. English isn't particularly consistent, (plural of mouse is mice, plural of house is houses, etc), don't try to argue with it. "Hispanic _insert_" means "_insert_ from Hispania". From your faction name, it's rather obvious that you're from the Hispania. Thus, you're Hispanic. It's how the language works.

Now, I also realize that in RL, "Hispanic" more commonly refers to people from Latin America than it does to people from the region "Hispania" in Spain. Yes, there actually is a region "Hispania", that's what the ship was named after. Sort of like how the Rheinland was named after the Rhineland region in Germany. Funny, that, Freelancer naming things after real-world places.

If, say, my very-much-underplayed Molly mentions he's from Dublin (fancy that, a Molly from Dublin... about as unlikely as Corsair descended from the sleeper ship Hispania) and someone says something like "Get the Dubliner off me!", is it reasonable to assume that this is, in fact, not an in-character comment, but rather a terrible, vicious attack on the Irish people, as well as an insinuation that my own person is from said region in Ireland, and worse off for it?

Unless it's got "//" in front of it, no, it's not. It's a reference to something I said. Even if it was a little more insulting a la "blasted drunken Dubliner" I highly doubt that the opposing player would be as silly as to assume that since I have a Molly character I am not only from Ireland but also under the influence of alcohol constantly. Rather, it's an in-character racial slur. Read vanilla infocards, they're all over the place. In addition to the Mollies being stereotyped straight from the IRA, Liberty corporate men on Planet New London have rumors about the foppish Bretonians, the Bundschuh "share no more love for Kusari than the rest of Rheinland", the Hogosha regularly attack the "gaijin scum", etc...

Taking offense to "Hispanic" being referred to someone who constantly mentions their relation to the Hispania is roughly akin to taking offense to "Libertonian" being referred to someone who constantly mentions their position in the Liberty Navy.

If you took offense rather to people getting your name wrong... think about how many times your name changed in the past two weeks, or the last time that anyone took offense to something as "major" as a reference to the Orbital Power Gnomes rather than the Omega Pirates Guild... seriously, you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Drop it.


And the rest of you... play nice...




EDIT: Your first post had me believing that you were offended from a perceived racial slur, not that people couldn't get your name right. Mm. If you want people to get your name right, stop changing it, get your whole faction to agree on what to call you, and don't take offense when someone messes up ingame. Your faction's name isn't the only thing to be remembered on this server, if they're close then correct them politely. If the same person messes up repeatedly and responds rudely when you offer a polite correction, THEN you have something to complain about. Barring that, stop whining.

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