Surely I am not the only person who frequents this board that finds it laughable that people throw such a huge fit over some words and comments, yet let other things slide without so much as a peep. I don't remember anyone being in an uproar in the LOL pictures thread when the pic was posted of the guy with the rocket launcher and the word N****R in huge white letters. A picture which was quoted at least once, if not twice in that thread. Also in that thread there were a lot of other racially and socially insensitve pictures posted. Probably the most disturbing of which are a few of the "Pedobear" pics and some of the others that treat pedophillia in a joking manner.
My point is this, if you're going to start curbing some forms of insensitive speech and expression, then you better start curbing them all and doing in objectively, regardless of context. Obviously, this is a virtually impossible task so the alternative is this: allow members of the community to excerise some self-sufficiency and use things like the "ignore member" feature. Also, if someone wants to go on a verbal diarrhea tirad of racial slurs or socially insensitive comments, let them and let others respond in kind if they so choose. If some one wishes to express the level of their intelligence and maturity in that matter, it's their responsibility as it everyone else's responsibility in how they receive that kind of message and how they let it affect them.
One final thing. Remember where you are; the Internet. This place isn't exactly a Utopia or a paradigm of social honor. Sure I understand that the real world sucks for the most part and a lot of the things we hear and see out there we don't necessarily want to put up with here but people need to stop taking things so seriously or you're going to give yourselves a stroke before you're in your 40s.