User blog comment:Samwysesr/Ethnic Identity/@comment-61022-20160914043819

Marvel has only been considering it a pejorative term for the past sixteen years or so. They certainly stopped using it when they began publishing new Handbooks in 2004. It was used a LOT in the 1960-80s to describe a lot of different European characters. Particularly Doctor Doom and his clan, and the Maximoff family.

It was the common nomenclature at the time. We should stop using the word anything we contribute on here, unless it's being used in a quote. I think it might also be useful to put a notation in any comics that use the term explaining its usage in said comic.

I think it's acceptable to use it in some contexts. A comparative would be the use of the N-Word in. Kitty Pryde uses the word to compare how hurtful it is being called a Mutie. If we were quoting the line, I would say it shouldn't be censored because it's a direct quote, and the whole point of the quote is to make a commentary on racial slurs.