Blox wrote:(If just because it's such a minor thing.)
It's NOT a minor thing. Racial slurs aren't just words, they're a meaning of otherizing people--making them lesser than yourself. Words have a power over people, regardless of whether you believe they do or not. That's why people get offended. It's not because they're "too sensitive" or "don't have a sense of humor" or whatever, it's because you are actively using hateful speech designed to hurt and demean. Even if you can chuckle at it, the fact still stands that a great many people can't and won't. Brutal Doom's been picked up by the online gaming press before; what happens when this reaches them? They, too, aren't going to find it funny. They're going to call it what it is: racist as shit. People will read it, take it at face value, and then congratulations, the game is now permanently associated with racism.
It doesn't matter that it didn't appear in the game. The douchebags who programmed Dead Island shipped the PC version with leftover code referring to a skill called "Feminist Whore" that was just for female characters. The gaming press didn't laugh at that "minor thing," either. Instead, they all called the designers shitheels for making such misogynist remarks, to the extent that the publisher had to come out and immediately apologize and state that they had no knowledge of this. What a couple of assholes in the programming department thought was a totally rad joke about "those uppity bitches who won't go down on you after you buy them a couple drinks" turned into a public relations nightmare. This is no different, apart from being on a smaller scale.
If you absolutely cannot see this as being a problem, you've got some issues with social skills that need some working out.