Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry

• nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Opening the post in the browser does show the word, so it’s lemmy.world that censors it for you.

  It’s the N word.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree, removing them automatically even makes moderation harder if they do it when federating because then the mods can’t see what they’re moderating.

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a frequent occurrence in Reddit that I read a typed out “Letter-word”, not knowing what swear/slur as the same letter could mean multiple different words in my regional English dialect.

  What frustrates me is that words that could harm require effort to ensure the context is clear and respectful, people who just swap it with a Letter-word don’t care enough to treat what they are saying with importance.

  I’ve previously asked what a comments letter-word was referring to as I couldn’t even find it via Google, the responses where downvotes and being told I should know what it means.

  Hurtful words either shouldn’t be said at all, or if being referred to need to be treated with delicacy and respect as if their harm matters, saying them while not saying them is the laziest and most disrespectful way of handling that.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Hurtful words either shouldn’t be said at all”

    Where is this though? As a queer person, I’m not removing words from my vocabulary which refer to people like myself. Just as I wouldn’t tell POC to not use the n-word.

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    • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I meant in the case where it would be hurtful, obviously it wouldn’t be reasonably hurtful to say it in a context which it isn’t, that was the point of what I was saying.

      I would say the same words if I had a reason to discuss whichever word, neither of us are directing it to a person with an explicit intent to cause harm.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s almost impossible to police that though.

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• antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The slur filter on lemmy world is very limited. There is an f-word and an n-word. And the reason I added it to the slur-filter was because we had spam accounts posting PAGES full of these words. And even when that stopped we kept those two words in our slur-filter. As the times they would be used “academically” would be far less than their use as an insult.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, it makes sense from a moderation standpoint. I know there’s been a lot of spam with slurs. I think it does hurt real conversations and I don’t like it but it’s not like it’s unjustified. It makes sense.

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    • antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are still ways to make clear which word you use without using the actual word IMO. Glad I could clear things up a bit :)

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If course there are. But if someone is unaware of the fact that a word is censored and still writes it, the conversation can be derailed into a discussion about which word it is and why words are removed instead. But those are things one has to weigh against one another.

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