It’s a goddamn minefield, especially for someone like me who hates excessive censorship.

Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to remove that fucking asterisk.

AKAB

No idea, really. See my other reply to daggermoon.

Worth pointing out that for the rest of the world this is often hard to navigate. Americans have a reputation for excessive self-censorship based on pearl-clutching, with “the F word” or “p*rn” or censoring nipples.

So sometimes actual strongly hateful or dehumanising language gets dismissed as another example of oversensitity.

“Japs” was used by Americans during WW2 so it has pretty negative connotations there.

Is that supposed to prove Americans are not a bunch of cowards? Because it does the opposite.