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by crgt 3977 days ago
How about the "Idiot's Guide To WebM" or "WebM for Dummies". Are those OK? I guess I'm not seeing the difference..
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Some ( many! ) years ago there was a popular how-to entitled something like 'Kerberos for Imbeciles' which I had to save to disk and edit to retitle before printing it in work.

It was a useful guide but several people were offended by the original title.

The difference is that fewer people would get offended by those.
Do those fewer people have less right to not be offended than those who are offended by "retard"?
Those are similarly problematic for the same reasons.