Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat
by throwoutway on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @10:04PM
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The abnormal part is these activists bring up ancient negative definitions (that no one else has ever heard of) for words like "brown bag", when no one uses the 'bad' definition in daily practice, and try to ban it.
If a word/phrase has evolved toward a positive definition, then its abnormal and regressive and wrong to try to bring back the negative definition and force people to stop using it. Why do they do it? For just the twitter points?
Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat
by shadowgovt on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:12AM
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I'd recommend asking them.
By what process do you think we got to the place where the words that are on most text chat channels' banned or auto-flag-for-moderation lists got to be on those lists? It was by a group of people (which started small) explaining why those words weren't okay, over and over again, until people agreed.
My personal opinion is that 2/3 of the words in your list could probably stand to be jettisoned from regular usage (I haven't heard a compelling explanation for the remaining third but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise).