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@sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org • 10 months ago

Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs

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Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs

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@sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org • 10 months ago
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    Apparently “cotton” and “Mexican” are slurs

    • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      How dare you to type “cotton” and “Mexican”!

    • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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      God damn, my shirts are made of c*tton, sorry bros

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        deleted by creator

    • @megopie@beehaw.org
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      I could definitely see how cotton could be used in some pretty heinous ways, maybe not by definition slurrs, but still. Given the historical context of the United States In particular.

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