Smogon has never had any particular policy on racism. However, if someone is making malicious racist comments, the moderators will take appropriate action. We will (and have) banned users for consistently making impolitic remarks. We will not try to filter out every little thing (or really anything at all) that might offend someone, because word filters are absurdly easy to bypass and in general not worth the effort. We will also not continue debating in this thread, because we're going around in circles and, though cliche, "it's the Internet". Some people are going to say things that you don't like; certainly it is not that hard to ignore a passing mention of a slur, and as I said, disciplinary action does occur for persistent cases.
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