Topic on All The Tropes talk:Why Fork TV Tropes

"As for wanting to sanitize terms from an era which, as you described, is one you feel should be moved past, fair point, but by that standard, one would have to sanitize the writings of Mark Twain because of his use of words considered vile racial slurs today that were largely acceptable in his day."

We don't have control over Twain and his writings, nor do I wish for us to - what we (as in, ATT) do have control of is how we present ourselves to others, and I feel the word choice is slightly counterproductive to that end - enough to want to discuss it with the rest of you, anyway, but not nearly enough to warrant a nonsense comparison like that.