Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
by jpxw on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:51AM
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The words “communist bandit” are not “hate speech”. This is ridiculous. How infantilised have we become these days?
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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
by michaelt on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:34PM
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While I agree there are over-sensitive people in our society, I'm not sure you can reliably recognise hate speech in translation.
I mean, I know a word that Google Translate defines as "a Jewish person" - do you think you can tell me if it's offensive or not based on that?
Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
by munificent on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:57PM
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I don't know the context behind "communist bandit", but the idea that a term can't be hate speech simply because it doesn't contain any words that are obviously bad when stripped of cultural or historical context is wrong. The recipient of these slurs likely does have that context and will take that into account when interpreting it.
Calling an African American in the South a "cotton picker" is profoundly hateful even though the term itself seems innocuous.