Context: Admiral Patrick replied and included this gem:
And might I add that not one person complained until db0 went internet Karen with his hissy fit because I took his toy away from him.
“Not one person complained about my explicitly obfuscated blacklists! Damn internet Karens making a big deal!”


Well it also decides what is a slur entirely without context.
“But what would the context for the N-word be?”
Well, black people can say it, at least black Americans, but that isn’t the only type of “slur.”
It also bans “bitch,” even if you’re just talking about that bitchin’ game you just bought (slang for “awesome”), or a female dog (wouldn’t want to offend dogs ofc), it presumes misogyny without evaluating context.
It does the same with “pussy.” Pussy is a slang term for vagina, and a vulgar one at that, but are “slang terms for vagina” themselves “slurs?” I’d argue not, even being sexist and reducing a woman to only her body parts by calling her “a hole” isn’t “a slur” (and it’s only ok during sex, and if she is into that sort of thing. More are than you’d think tbh…). BUT what’s more “pussy” itself when applied to a weak cowardly person IS NOT saying “you’re like a weak cowardly woman,” it’s short for the oft forgotten word:
While it does say “manly” in the second definition, it comes from the latin word “pusillus” (very small) which is related to “pusus” (boy), the comparison isn’t “manly vs womanly” it’s “manly vs child-like (boy).”
So “pussy” itself is IMO “a slur” in no context across either of its entirely separate definitions, though it can be used in a sexist manner just like “dishwasher” can be, so I guess they need to add that too.
It also makes me sound worse lol, if I say “you’re acting like a removed,” did I just call them a bitch? A pussy? The n-word? Who knows, fill in the blank I guess lol, the censor just lets your imagination decide.
Allow me to add something else to your comment: Lemmy slur filter, and similar non-RegEx filters, also suffers from “Scunthorpe problem” (or should I say, “Sremovedhorpe problem”), insofar it replaces every occurrence of the substring, regardless of the surrounding characters.
E.g., the name for the purple fruit used for making wine would be unreadable because it happens to share a substring with the four-letter name denoting non-consented intercourse, which was one of the slurs filtered in the Lemmy-UI.
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