Botabing, you are questioning about respect and rights without understand either of them.
Right is never a one-way question, if it is granted to you the right to speech freely, your part is to be responsable of the thinks you are saying, and make your part to grant the other's rights.
Respect is to consider others as equals to you (implicitly with the same rights), and to grant them the same treatment you wish they give to you, mean to understand the differences and act to avoid to force your behaviours on them, mean to consider their points of view at least equivalent to yours (even if wrong).
For your behaviour it's clear you dont have ANY respect for this community.
And, for the above statement, you cant be respected, because the respect has to be always MUTUAL.
Back to the old jap theme.
Let's see how a mature person act in this situation:
You are now in a community where there are big cultural differences, and for the beginning you have to be particularly sensible to the others feelings.
Like me you never felt the word "jap" as an offensive word, but one component of our community raise up and said that for a lot of people from Japan this word cut be offensive, and because i am a mature person, and i respect this great community (<S>!!), i decided to force myself to try to not use this word (can happens when i am not paying attention), the same way i avoid (for my culture is easy) the word cupcake.
The above in contests where using this words cut be offensive.
I explain better, i have a black friend from afrika, and for joke (since he is racist) i call him cupcake, in that contest both of us know is'nt offensive.
But in the arena or in the bbs this understanding is impossible, and a smart guy (hoping you are such a guy), have to be REAL carefull before saying this kind of racist words.
A mature person understand the rules and act to respect it.
A kid have long way before to understand it, and in this anonymous contest feel free to act without responsability.
Since childlish attitude has growth more and more, HTC has chose to act as a parent and force the knidergarden to have more educated behaviours.
Is rules enforcement, teorically to avoid, but pratically to made when there are persons not enough mature to respect rules without any enforcement.
Better this than a quakelike community.
You dont like it?
Well, this is HTC's house, so YOU have to step out, and go back to play Quake.
I dont respect you?
Well, show respect, and you will be respected.
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