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Offline Friday
04-20-2011, 08:56 AM,
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How far do people have the right to be offended?

The word jihad is not considered offensive in the English language.

This is an English server.

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Offline Waratah
04-20-2011, 08:58 AM,
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' Wrote:How far do people have the right to be offended?

The word jihad is not considered offensive in the English language.

This is an English server.


Well it would be offensive to a soldiers family that was killed by rebels who stated it was a Jihad declared on us.

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Offline Shagohad
04-20-2011, 08:59 AM,
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' Wrote:It's the Holy war Croatians and Joe(Jihad) - he is actually a croatian are working together to kick and ban every balkanian except us from discovery server. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

The RA thought he was a member of the CIA who hated unified Russians.

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Offline horvat
04-20-2011, 08:59 AM,
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This is prolly gonna get me sanctioned but. You guys are ****in idiots. It has been done they were sanctioned deal with it. They are like much more important things then this game but (wait) seems its RL for you all. Rofl mongs. Im here to T R O L L. Im gonna make a holy war on forums on you all. Jihad ftw everyone in this forum topic will be tracked, their characters will be utterly raped on Discovery forums and server by the magnificent group of Sina's.

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Offline nunchakus
04-20-2011, 09:00 AM, (This post was last modified: 04-20-2011, 09:03 AM by nunchakus.)
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' Wrote:How far do people have the right to be offended?

The word jihad is not considered offensive in the English language.

This is an English server.

Offensive is pretty much subjective, jihad itself as a noun means struggle, not holy war.

Edit: Therefore JihadJoe would literally be translated into StrugglingJoe.

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Skyrim
04-20-2011, 09:00 AM,
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' Wrote:Well it would be offensive to a soldiers family that was killed by rebels who stated it was a Jihad declared on us.

Oh please, let's not get into this discussion about war. Yeah, everyone should feel sorry for the invaders into middle-eastern countries. Who cares about all those middle-eastern civilians who dies, or someone's relatives, it's all about the shiny knight invaders yeah? Don't even try to go down this disgusting road of morale tactics. The word Jihad in Joe's name is in no intention to offend people. The long sentences of swearwords in almost every player of a player-tagged group IS offensive. Because the intention is deliberate.
Offline Jack_Henderson
04-20-2011, 09:01 AM,
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I think it's perfectly correct to ban them.

People are banned 7 days for a single f-word, so a faction with names that are (hidden) swearwords cannot be treated differently.

It's as easy as that.

I think JihadJoe's offer to admit it, change it and be unbanned was a very reasonable and mild one.

They decided not to do it. So... *shrugs*

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Offline Jihadjoe
04-20-2011, 09:05 AM,
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So... Waratah, you've not actually said anything regarding the actual subject matter so far... That being the question about how exactly you manage to create ten different names, all of which are offensive in the player's native language, and then claim that it was a tragic accident involving twelve bullfrogs, a microwave and google, and that you didn't mean it, honest gov.

It's impossible to believe that a group of balkan players could simply not notice that these names were offensive, and think it was fine to use them.

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Offline Friday
04-20-2011, 09:05 AM,
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My point is that decisions regarding language should be informed by the language being used on the server. We are expected to speak in English on the server - with the occasional word or phrase thrown for RP purposes.

Words like 'baka' are thrown about Kusari often without complaint - because everyone knows it is only intended as an RP insult.

Words like Eff-Ay-Gee are deleted on the forums because, although it means cigarette in slang English, the community is strongly influenced by the 'internet-speak' of younger people. This means Eff-Ay-Gee is a derogatory word for homosexual (and gets used an awful lot on the internet!).

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Offline Shagohad
04-20-2011, 09:09 AM,
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I really don't want to be known as that guy who trolls a thread because it's funny, so I won't.

Some one pressured that same excuse on the SCRA. "Russians and Soviets are offensive because they made gulags and killed people for not being useful in society." Yeah, they did, get over it. But that's not even the worst of it.

Did you know...

Some of us here are National Socialists?

Some of us here are extremely racist?

Some of us here are homosexuals?

Some of us here are Republicans?

Some of us here are Democrats?

Some of us here believe that America used Germany to start WW2 in a mass capitalist plot?

Everyone mocks one another behind their backs?


We're all human beings with different opinions, beliefs, and breaking-points. If you want to censor Discovery, then we'd have a gray game without any development. Kusari is racist, Rheinland is Nazi, Liberty is America to the EXTREME, and Bretonia just doesn't have faults. Because no one cares about it. It's history. It happened.

Get.
Over.
It.

PS:
Blatant ignorance is not an excuse.

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