The tag alias #63466 racist_slur -> racial_slur has been approved.

Reason: Synonymous terms should probably be aliased.

EDIT: The tag alias racist_slur -> racial_slur (forum #371406) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

There was a whole debate about this before and idk if it was resolved. An admin supported "racial" but then rejected the BUR for it for some reason

Reverse it, "racial slur" is the more common term in English by a factor of about 8:1 based on Google results and trends.

cloudpie said:
There was a whole debate about this before and idk if it was resolved. An admin supported "racial" but then rejected the BUR for it for some reason

That's not only that, there was "gender slur", "disability slur" and a few others. I recall that admin only supported "racial slur" over "racist slur".

I'm less concerned with the precise tag and more with having a standard, preferably consistent, with everything else aliased to it.

cloudpie said:
There was a whole debate about this before and idk if it was resolved. An admin supported "racial" but then rejected the BUR for it for some reason

It is still unresolved, see topic #37956.
Maybe they just wanted to keep everything in a single BUR, rather than split into two competing BURs.

wolfmanfur said:
That's not only that, there was "gender slur", "disability slur" and a few others. I recall that admin only supported "racial slur" over "racist slur".

They wanted more neutral sounding terms, not just for racial_slur.

Racist slur sounds like it's something said to insult racists. XD Just saying.

The tag alias racist_slur -> racial_slur (forum #371406) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

I reversed it and approved it. My reasons were related to what Lafcadio said.