Does calling it the ''R-Word'' instead of calling it as it is not suggest that ?

I hardly think so, the pledge they sport on their site only refers to derogatory use of the word.

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It's the impression I got. I had to search the website to find out what the word was and until then it could have been recession or any word beginning with ''R'' therefore I perceived it as being eliminated from the discussion and replaced with a new euphemism so its' one valid interpretation. Your view can be equally valid.

This is just PR crap going too far. This has been the most sensible post so far.....

There will be some other word to offend people next year.........

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Surely the point is meant to be not to 'ban' a word but to have people not use it in a jeering, sneering kind of way when making some sort of comparison when there are plenty of other words that will do the job? After all I thought people were meant to be at least somewhat conscious of what they were saying and thus prepared to live with the consequences of what they say.

It's not even really a word that really had much currency here until the cool kids started using it, I suspect post-Southpark. People are free to use whatever language they want, just as others are free to think less of them for choosing to express themselves so poorly. If people can't tell the difference between a show like Southpark using it, an adult politican making a cheap political point or some tosser on a train who reckons it makes them cool to their mates then what next.

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Thanks for the votes - Dan Sullivan. I'll be back and then we can all have a vote.


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