Personally, i think some people are forgetting what kind of game GTA is and what kind of characters we’re playing. They’re, you know, criminals. And criminals break the law and say some awful, dumb, obscene -ist and -phobic shit, it’s kind of their shtick. How often do you see criminals on the news or street quoting Shakespeare and making inspirational speeches like Martin Luther King Jr.?
The whole appeal, in my personal opinion, to many in GTA games is to act unhinged, cause chaos, steal, kill hundreds, blow stuff up, vent, do some weird and crazy stuff.
Asking to be “less crude” to certain groups of people [in a GTA game] is, the way i see it, a way to disaster. Let me quote one South Park miniseries, called «Cartoon Wars» (it’s applied to TV show, but i’m sure you’ll be able to make the connection):
«If we convince the network to pull this episode for the sake of Muslims, then the Catholics can demand a show they don’t like get pulled. And then people with disabilities can demand another show get pulled. And so on and so on, until Family Guy is no more! It’s exactly what happened to Laverne & Shirley.»
Next they’ll stop joking about millionaires (they got feefees too, you know), police, army, education system, food industry, oil companies and so on and we’ll get the most sterile boring game ever in the end (again, to get an idea, rewatch South Park, «Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo» episode, when they tried to make christmas play to be as non-offensive as possible and how everyone “loved” that in the end).
P. S.: And before someone will start saying stuff that only minorities were the butt of the joke in previous GTA games or something like that – GTA was making fun of everyone, no exceptions, always have. But looks like never will anymore.