Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4799587-20140909072622/@comment-25377359-20140911100146

I see a lot has already been said on the topic of offensive language / hate speech, and I just want to add my two cents.

Yes, some people swear, some people swear a lot. As somebody mentioned, most of us let an expletive slip here and there and as long as it's in good faith and understood by the receiving party as harmless, there's nothing wrong with it. The real problem is expletives or derogatory speech that insults a specific group of people (a certain ethnicity, or a certain sexuality, or one of the genders). I am by no means a politically correct person, but there are limits to what people will swallow as harmless jokes and digs.

Judging what is offensive and what isn't only from your point of view is at best egotistic. People are different and have different sensibilities as well; trampling them with commonplace phrases like "Don't be a wuss" and its ilk is disrespectful towards people who might take offense at what you consider just a joke.