Just because Americans/Western colonial powers used black people as slave labour and called them niggers everyone who isn't black should feel bad and avoid the word. /s
Yeah, no. Censorship is bullshit. I got banned for a week for offending PC Principal Kitfox and his terrorist buddies in the wake of the terror attacks in France. All opinions are valid, just because your PC butthole hurts you shouldn't go around banning people, clinging to the reason of "using a racial slur". If you want Discussion to be taken seriously and retain its userbase, you shouldn't let the tone/style of posts warrant punishment when the opinion behind them is valid (and in this case, mainstream even) and the post quality is acceptable.