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by Cpoll 948 days ago
> Australian

Ireland, from a cursory check of their profile. But it doesn't invalidate your point, I don't think it's gendered their either.

> ban

Words in my mouth. I'm not advocating a ban, we're discussing whether a word is appropriate on this forum.

> their word for "black"

A bit of a stretch, considering _that_ word isn't on par with "fucker" in Spanish. So ironically, yeah, I think we would ban a Spanish poster for using it in this context?

But I concede your point that if it's not gendered, the intent isn't sexist.