Again, that would be under the assumption that they had any inkling that it was an offensive word in other regions, and logically, if they did have any inkling, they most likely would have avoided the word entirely.Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
You'd think they'd learn to do a bit more research into names after the Nexus Maximus affair.A simple Google search (with safe mode switched off
) probably would've let them know that the word could be offensive in some regions.
See where this is going? You've already shown that Hasbro tries to be culturally sensitive when they are aware of a problem. If they didn't know there's a problem, how could they respond to it? Why would they do a google search for a word that, to Americans, seems perfectly reasonable?
Additionally, their lawyers and the US Trademark registration office evidently didn't see a problem with trademarking "spastic" either, further demonstrating that generally Americans have no idea that "spastic" is now considered to be an offensive term in some countries.
Is anybody else going to attempt to argue that they did somehow know that spastic was offensive but were too lazy to double check or simply didn't care? Because that would be a ridiculous argument.
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