I'm sorry you are too stricken with ennui to truly care about the many travesties we have to bear when using the english language, such as the horrible choice of using "phobos" as a suffix. For instance, the second greatest philosopher ever, Charles Sanders Peirce, felt the same way about more conventional words like "philosophy" and "phenomenology", opting for "cenoscopy" and "phaneroscopy".
The term “phaneron” is one Peirce took from the Greek φανερός, meaning what is “visible” or “manifest”. The choice of this word seems calculated in a certain way to distinguish it from the “phenomenon”, or the “thing appearing to view”; that is, while the term “phenomenon” is limited to the object in question (and thus its import specified by whether one presumes realism or idealism), the manifestness of the phaneron embraces a wider range of possible meaning: for in what is manifest—and this interpretation is strengthened by texts of Peirce soon to follow—in what is manifest we have more than merely what comes upon us from without, but include also the provenations following from the activity of our own minds.

To quote Peirce:

You can accuse me of appealing to semantics, but saying exactly what we mean is quite important.

Sorry, but you are sorely mistaken. Nothing that spirates from my mind can be vis a vis "stupid" as since I have been tested on the WAIS scale for an intelligence quotient of over 150. What about you, friend?

He didn't use a slur in his name, and it can't be argued that he used a slur in his name. Read what I said, Anthony.

Melon is not openly "transphobic" or "homophobic", this is clear from anyone who has ever dipped their feet into linguistics. For instance, φόβος in Greek is referring to a "fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic". However, it is clear that Melon, from the act of giving his gunboats such a direct name, does not have a fear of transsexual peoples. A more fitting suffix could be -apostrophic, from the Greek αποστροφή, for disgust or repugnance. So, it cannot be argued that Melon here has been openly homophobic or transphobic, but perhaps he is homoapostrophic or transapostrophic. How these more correct significations of the scenario and how they apply to RGL rules is clearly yet to be determined.

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Kind sir, what an introspective post! I really never thought about it that way. Here. I'll give you some gold for this post... it is times like these where I really fucking love the internet, and that some hope for humanity has been kindled in my otherwise tired soul.

Again, thank you for your bravery.

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So it matters that 6ix9ine is an inner city hispanic guy? I thought it was "literally a black and white issue"?
I guess it really isn't, since safrix and dogo_ have been banned for racism.

Alright, so I'd want to see the ban reason changed from "used a slur" to "is culturally insensitive".

Yeah?

That's not at all what I'm saying.
Here is UGK's Diamonds and Wood. Are these rappers using the word as a slur?

I'm not saying the word should be used by people who aren't black, but there is trouble in identifying someone's ethnicity through profiles set up by them that don't have to be exactly representative of who they truly are. So, policing the word's usage in this context is far from a black-and-white issue.

A TF2 player named MelonTf, on TFTV as 2Melon, has received a ban on RGL for the "use of racial slur in players alias during RGL match."
Looking at the logs of the RGL match in question, Melon's alias at the time was "Tay Keith他妈的这些黑鬼". When taking the Chinese section of his username, it translates roughly into "Fuck these nigga".

What Melon's alias is actually referencing is a producer tag of Tay Keith, a hip hop producer who marks beats he produces with a vocal line in the beginning saying "Tay Keith, fuck these niggas up". Melon's alias is not using "nigga" as a slur, as the word as used in his alias (and the original thing being referenced) is used as a way to address a (fellow) black person, or when plural, sometimes a group of people without racial distinction, as opposed to the word being used in a disparaging way. The reason part of his alias was translated into Chinese is just due to a Chinese translation meme of the past year or so (he definitely took his alias from somewhere else on the internet, and many people who will read this will recognize it).

Expanding upon what was said before: the word as a slur is ordinarily displayed with a hard-r representation. The word as a term of endearment/means of addressing a person or group, usually does not appear in this form. Since signing up for RGL does not require a player to dox themselves and reveal their ethnicity, it can become difficult to police if saying "nigga" would warrant abuse (even though in this case it doesn't even matter since it's entirely referential), but at the same time, banning the word from being used entirely chooses to ignore a small but normative part of black culture.

Also, it's safe to say this ban is definitely the result of RGL's own witch hunting of their self-identified "problem members" who were identified in a large banwave back in January, as no sane person playing against them or viewing the logs would even bother to translate his alias.
(Open question to RGL: what were the reasons for the bans placed on kuhnockers, phoxx, and della, other than "associating with bad people"?)
Quoting from a previous RGL ban thread:

Obviously, it's not just Scratchh receiving this treatment.

TL;DR: RGL's language policing is extremely poor. RGL wants to boot some allegedly awful players out of their league, but their attempts to do so have thus far had absolutely terrible justifications.

I only feel the need to make this issue public since I don't believe RGL admins will do anything otherwise, and just silently backpedal on bans only after the general public disagrees, for the nth time, with more to come.

Yeah and after kev is banned, can we get this recidivist homophobe "b3arodactyl" to receive the punishment he surely deserves? Killing 4 invite teams isn't good enough, how about we kill 5!
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I mean come on trip... its the current year bro.. if choking off the highest level of the game is what needs to be done so we can stop people from saying "gay" and "kys"... then so be it....

This might not be so obvious to you, but there might be a difference between someone saying "Literally kill yourself, go fucking- go in the middle of the road, on the highway, and let a fucking semi run you over", as former RGL contributor stephanie did -- and someone typing a mere "kys" in a game chat and nothing more.

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http://logs.tf/1961494
You guys remember Rewind II?

From The Same League that (BREAKING NEWS) "Stalks [A CERTAIN PLAYER]'s Logs.TF Profile Trying To Find Reasons To Ban Said Player"
- A Person That May Or May Not Be Involved On The RGL Administration Team at this Current Time.

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PogGNU am i Right Guys?

Ns tb JAU yldz "vwgztkhg" ECWM I'm sure he is fine! :)

Correction: cookiejake is not retired, he is playing "Main" with other "Main" players such as desca, mr popo, zilly and John Milter.