A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by thoughty on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:43PM (#27914698)

There was a star trek channel on youtube which got suspended because he called the fictional race Ferengi “greedy”, which they actually are. Got reinstated after a few days. But it’s getting ridiculous now.

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by exporectomy on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:53AM (#27915511)

I wonder how The Onion gets away with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PC8Luqiws where they suggest visualizing your money related stress as a greedy hook-nosed race of creatures who want to grabble up all your money - and only hire their own kind.

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by ficiek on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:46AM (#27917763)

That is really well done, Onion used to be amazing.

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by smusamashah on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:57AM (#27916836)

Ferengi looks the same as فرنگی if 'g' sounds as in 'girl'.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8...

"A foreigner, especially a British or a white person." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firangi

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by account42 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:37AM (#27918671)

Huh, the Thai ฝรั่ง ("farang", meaning Guava but also used to refer to white people) is also kinda similar. Looks like it has similar etymology and is not just based on the color of the fruit flesh. [0]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9D%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E...

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by booleandilemma on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:27PM (#27915000)

My wife is a Ferengi.

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