I had a post removed today for using the word “spook” in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.

  • Smeagolicious [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Accurate pfp. Maybe I’m in the vast minority but I have heard it used as a slur IRL.

    declaring random words to be slurs just because they were used this way at some point

    Idk if I have any strong feelings about it getting filtered but that’s a bad take