Post #806163 by SouthSeasKat on Wed, Oct 26, 2022 9:44 PM

I left the conversation back in April. I considered my piece on this said and I thought we'd moved on.

The word is a slur in the context it is used in the image in the first post. For historical reasons, I never advocated it be taken down, but I did feel I had the right to express that it was surprising and upsetting to me (and to others). And that's all I was doing.

It's wholly incomparable to the same-sounding shortening of transmission or transister, but I think you know that, and your comments are not in good faith. I've spent time in Australia and I was an automotive journalist and have worked on my own vehicles. I'm not offended by the use of such shortenings in their appropriate context. I am offended by the use of a slur, and no, I will not follow you in saying it just as I do not use other slurs.

It was a problem 40 years ago, and it's a problem now. And it makes some people feel unwelcome. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it, and I won't have anything else to say on it.