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Not sure you understood my point. I don't think they should have removed all "Coon" from the database, just the one guy in his team. Like I said, the one that brought it up must have had good reason to do that (at least I'm assuming that). It should only apply to players in one's team, so I don't think it will be much of a problem. If I had a player called "Salazar" (former portuguese dictator, very bad memories for Mozambique, where I come from) I wouldn't feel comfortable. But it is a portuguese name. I probably would just sell the guy, or fire him, but the guy who brought this up did what he thought was best.

As for Rudy Gay's name, I don't find homophobic discrimination tolerable, so I agree with the Estonian user LaLunaBasket. As for the use of the word "nigger", it has an historical background behind it. Again I completely agree that skin colour is just a characteristic that everybody has, but racism is still a serious problem. And I come from Africa, so I know what I'm talking about. When two black people call each other as "nigga" it is (in general) a friendly way of calling. I'm white, but my friends and I (spreading the whole spectrum of skin colours) treated each other as "nigga" and it was fine. But you must agree that when someone says "boy those niggers are really dumb!" it has a racist connotation that goes back to slavery times. So it's not just the word, it's the context in which you employ it.

I think this is going a little off topic so I predict this thread will be closed soon :P

I don't think they should have removed all "Coon" from the database, just the one guy in his team.

He could have sold the guy, as you pointed out later. But I guess if the player was very important to his team the above solution is acceptable.

I see your point. Would he have acted differently had it been a lousy player named "Coon"? Probably, I don't know. But the BB's attended to his request. Maybe they should use the opportunity to set down a rule, like "No BB names are created to offend anyone in any language. If someone is really offended they should sell or fire the player". End of discussion, no special requests. But there was no rule established, and changing the name is just a "find and replace" operation. The main point is that, for as long as there is moderation and common sense, this shouldn't be an issue. If this escalates we will end up choosing our players' names

I'm offended by the name Edju can we also remove that from the BB Database?

Seems to me we mostly agree. I am happy to end our discussion on that note.

Yeah me too. I think we all agree that we may be moving into swampy territory unless ground rules are established

I am offended by the missing "t" in my team name.

Could you change that free for me, please? :-)