EA keeps discriminating against some Italians in F1 25

No. The offensive term within Caputo is the last four words, in only one language, Spanish. I can tell you with 100% certainty, having lived in a Spanish speaking country for 32 years, that nobody with the last name Caputo is made fun of because of it. And in said country there are hundreds of thousands of families with that name, some of which were and are public figures. And nobody made fun of them because of it. Not even by ten year olds. I know because it's not my last name, it's my best friend's last name, and I went to elementary school with him, for seven years, and in all that time, I spent most of the day with him and other kids, and I never witnessed a single kid make fun of him because of his last name. It's just a common last name.

This is just a simple case of EA trying to be more religious than the pope. Meaning, it's a perfectly safe and common last name, and I just don't understand your thought that it "would get abused by a significant percentage of gamers who are edgelords trying to be vile as possible". How exactly would it get abused? How do you think that me entering the last name Caputo at the beginning of a single player career constitutes abuse in any way? Please explain to me because I don't get it.

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How is this not discrimination when a common Italian last name is banned, when the name itself is not even the derogatory term, but just part of it?

And by the way, this:

EA_Barry wrote:

We do not whitelist individual names, so in this case, you will need to choose something else. Thank you for your cooperation.

is definitely not a solution. A solution would be "Thanks for letting us know, we'll whitelist that name ASAP and push an update".

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Thanks for posting. There is no discrimination involved here. It is unfortunate that your name is blocked. [Edit, please see my post below] Thank you for your cooperation.

The real-world F1 organization wants this game to be a marketing tool to grow the fanbase...especially children. So, they are going extra-cautious about language even when it's frustrating to some people.

I'm not sure i'd class it as discrimination as that seems a little strong and seems to have an implication that the Italians are targeted or that the issue is intentional.  There are other highly-common names in different languages with words that are less taboo than the one you mention that are also classed as forbidden so it's definitely not a targeted issue.

I would have assumed it was possible for a wildcard where if the 'offensive' word is present in a name then it's still permitted on the proviso it doesn't extend to a different profanity word.  However, I expect that there was a concern that people would exploit the loophole and use more offensive names so it was a blanket stop.   Hopefully they'll be able to whitelist certain popular names, such as the one you requested, rather than a wildcard that allows all through.