Thread:TheCleverBadger/@comment-32602006-20140422221843/@comment-32602006-20140424200933

It's not really "gringo" that's offensive (well I guess it could be, but not inherently). In fact neither is "koon" by itself or attached to another word. But choosing to link one *potentially ethnically charged term with another commonly racially charged term is what starts to raise red flags, spelled conventionally or not.

Gringo=dumb America=fine by me at least

koon=raccoon= well that's pushing it, but by itself it's still not a TOU violation, at least not in my opinion

But just consider this for a second, if you decide to do a slang-plain English translation of your username, it basically translates into "stupid American Coon". And I'm pretty sure there are at least some people on the wiki who would find that usermane just a little distasteful.

If someone chose the username "TroubleMakingSilverBack" and chose a silverback gorilla as his or her avatar, that wouldn't take the apparent offensiveness out of the name, even though "troublemaking" paired with most other words would not be offensive and "silverback" does literally mean an adult male gorilla patriarch.

And other admins have banned users for usernames that in my opinion are a lot less offensive than anything with "koon" in it. Kefke banned someone for the username "MLPSucks".

Also, on the CP wiki at least, users are frequently banned for having "nigga" in their usernames, even though removing the "er" suffix does take some of the racial charge out of it.