Am i the only one who appreciates bluntness more rather than dancing around a subject?

I just started Hyperion, at the very beginning there’s a narration of the story of a priest who went in exile in a dangerous zone and finds a tribe of people. He starts describing them and then realises that they are “a group of R children”. Pretty sure i can’t say the R word here (because context doesn’t matter anymore apparently). I appreciated that so much more because then i pictured a modern day writer trying to describe the same subject and how long it would take it for the reader to come to the same conclusion. It wasn’t used in an offensive way at all.

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by Pender8911