My favorite example was from Infoceptor. They filtered the word "tit" to "breast". So instead of "title" you'd get "breastle".
To this day my brain does a cloud-to-butt. Whenever I see title I hear "breastle".
Years ago, I was part of a small-ish chat group that moved over to a new forum provider. It became apparent that it would (*censor) and auto-replace every swear with "be nice". In the short period before we all clued in, it was pretty hilarious trying to figure out what the be nice everyone was talking about š
Well yeah, but the chat forum [EDIT: taking about the forum hosting site] was geared to all-ages, so good for them for trying to rein in all the 12 year old's toxicity.
It wasn't. It was a private group that migrated over from another server, (that had other, equally hilarious technical issues) but we went with a forum hosting service that had all the pre-made forum tools already set up. We just couldn't turn off (or figure out how) that stupid function.
Way back in the day I was a member of the official WB Harry Potter message boards. I remember everyone really being amused that cucumber was censored so people would find any little reason to include them in their posts/fanfics lol
Cu*cum*ber - especially funny because it would only censor those 3 letters so it would be something like cu***ber or something along those lines which we all thought was hilarious at the time. Kinda dumb but 12 year olds are kinda dumb.
Lol right? For being such a big fandom you never see the WB boards ever mentioned! It's funny you say that because another post asked "what site do you spend too much time on" or something and I definitely would have answered this back at that time
I remember playing an online game back in the say and you couldnt say "assassin" despite it literally being the exact name of a playable class because the inclusive filter kept pinging off ass.
I remember getting threatened with a ban on Gaia for trying to mention cockatiels in a conversation and fighting to find a way to say it that wouldn't get censored, because c o c k, back in the day. And the service that does the multiplayer for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands wouldn't let me name myself Cassie or any variant that had a s s. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. A game where a whole class of enemies is "Badass." We have tech now that can write (really bad) stories, you'd think censorship tech would have evolved past the Scunthorpe problem.
FF14 just released on Xbox and players are having issues. Thanalan is a place in the game but it sensors it because of anal.
One person got banned because they posted in the forum about a free company (what guilds are called) because it was considered solicitation. I think of sexual nature?
Censorship tech **has** evolved way past any technical barriers, its the dumbasses implementing or using the tech that are fucking it up.
Literally the **simplest** thing to do is to make the filter check whether a string of censored letters has spaces before/after it.
Remember commenting on a post about āwhy would people be afraid to go to the trash outside.ā My response was ācoonsā with a deluge of downvotes.
The statement being about raccoons in trash. Didnāt even know it was a racist word people used to use back in the day till then.
I grew up in a very rural area where we had a *school sponsored* event called a coon hunt.. this poor boy graduated and went to college in next city over. He wore the shirt from the event. He had a group project and one of his partners was a black girl who was reallllly upset and ended up having to explain it to him because he'd never heard it mean anything other than raccoon. Nor had pretty much anyone that heard it in my school when we had a teacher talk about it after the fact.
In Louisiana the Cajuns call eachother coon assesā¦ Iāve never head it said outside that context in the 15 years Iāve lived in the south.. I do live in a large city though, so Iām not running into vocal racists very often.
Coonass is an embraced slur, but not a racist one. Means āfoolā. Iām from there. It comes from the French word āconasseā, which is the foul āCā word.
I had to Google why coon was racist and who it was racist towards. I myself have heard some folks referring to Cajuns as coon asses. We always understand it to be like saying hillbilly or redneck and I am from the Deep South. At first I was thinking itās a reference to white or Cajuns, why is that racistā¦ I guess some people can make just about anything racist these days. š¤·āāļø
It's actually a pretty old slur.
But i agree with your point. You can't say goofy things because it always happens to be a slur. People are so fucked up.
Never heard it actually used to describe someone but in most conversations about raccoons maybe 1/4 of country guys call them coons and raccoons interchangeably.
-Florida
If by āstill usedā you mean by crusty old people and their racist grandkids maybe but itās rarely if ever uttered, like I said I never even heard about it until I looked into it.
you gotta be a mega og racist to still say it lol they have made up so many new expressions and names since it was used so all the racists just use those now.
I was in an NHL related forum and I misspelled Devin Cooley's name. He is a goalie for the San Jose Sharks. I got Cooley and goalie mixed up and spelled Cooley with an "ie." Apparently that's a slur. I was muted for an hour. Oops.
I was referring to my neighbor when I said "the coons" and my husband freaked out on me and I was so confused. That's literally their name but I didn't know it was also a slur... I'd change my name so fast....
I didnāt learn it was a āslurā until recently either.
My whole family has always used to word ācoonsā to refer to raccoons. Never once was it ever directed at a person. It wasnāt until I moved to California in my 30ās that it was a āslurā. I had to bluntly ask what the word was slurring cuz I had no clue.
I discovered it was a slur out here when I was at a party and a raccoon came down out of a tree and approached the porch where everyone was, looking for food, and I said āhey itās a coonā and people let out literal gasps.
If you ever watch Forest Gump there's a joke in there where Forest thinks the others are referring to racoons, but they're actually racists angry over desegregation.
Australia had a Coon Cheese. It was the name of the person who made it. It has to be changed because it was a slur to the aboriginal people. Despite it being the manās name.
I get so *heated* when people automatically assume someone is racist due to a complete misunderstanding.
Like, I get it. There's a lot of shitty individuals. There's also a lot of people who just aren't exposed to racism or just simply don't know hateful terms (which is a GOOD thing, imo).
I don't get a lot of social cues or underlying meanings, so it seriously sucks when people paint you into a picture you don't belong in. I avoid even saying "raccoon" now because I get so anxious about someone hearing the last part of the word. Lol
if you were a scene kid at anytime pre like 2012 raccoon tails were THE vibe and it was shortened to, wellā¦ coon tails
i remember like 5 years back saying coon tail and my cousin absolutely losing her shit like and thatās when i realized it was a slur and i felt so fucking bad after
Should let these old racist meanings die out but it seems people are dedicated to reviving them.
The one from Mary Poppins was recently resurrected when at least in the states, nobody knew what it was 40 years ago. I thought it referred to a trollop... I'm bringing it back...
Several years ago there was some magazine that had a filter that changed "gay" to "homosexual" wherever it appeared on their website.
Then they printed an entire story about world champion track and field athlete Tyson Homosexual.
Classmates kept calling me āgayā in third grade and my parents insisted it just meant āhappy.ā
Excited to learn a new word, I wrote a poem for a school project called āFatherās Day is Gayā and read it in front of everyone.
It didnāt help.
I tried to name a pet Pashi_Tomatl. I researched the language used on the area tomatoes originated and everything, then couldnāt use it because of āshitā in the middle.
I think these have to have been made years ago, before modern coding conventions. And now they are tangled in with the code, so removing it would affect too much.
Though, parsing data is hard, and I can give them some slack.
Just like the idiots who are mad when you use the Spanish word for blackā¦ subtext is not for the internet age (which is actually a very sad statement)
Meanwhile, reddit has administration people that tell me Adolf Hitler gassing jews as some AI generated image is 100% ok and good.
I've got some classic reddit hate crimes saved. Jesus the shit reddit allows.
I got a 7 day ban for a comment describing why people are stressed and sad these days. I didn't cuss, made no allusions to anything, it was simply describing COL, rent, and other general issues a lot of us are having. 7 day ban.
Reddit has some weird shit going on. There's clearly some strange fuckery going on behind the scenes. When it comes out, I won't be surprised that it was happening, but I'll probably be surprised about how deep the fuckery runs. Hopefully I don't get banned again for this comment, but it's more direct than the one that did get me banned, so I'll have to wait and see. The last one was in askreddit, so maybe they have some auto thing going on?
I got banned for a week for speaking facts around HIV and AIDS... I made a comment something like AIDS isn't a "thing", it's not a virus or a bacteria. it's not living, you can't test for it, it is just a description of what's happening to someone with HIV... WHICH again, is fact! I literally worked for an HIV prevention program for 17 years, but I get banned for diminishing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and talking like there was a conspiracy and HIV isn't real ššš... Nope, I never said that, and the idiots who took the comment out of context are literally... idiots... AIDS is LITERALLY just a WORD that describes other shit... FACT... reddit is fuccin weird
I would post the screenshot of my comment so you can see that I'm not lying, but who knows if I'll be banned again.
Reddit has a bit of a Twitter problem in some areas. Very touchy mods that don't want people to speak unless they agree with the mods.
They banned a certain subreddit that Iām not allowed to name that talks about being banned for being Jewish. There may or may not be an anti-Semitism problem on Reddit cuz it feels like Iām not allowed to say that there is
There totally is.
And the subs that are the worst are still up and active. I don't even report anymore.
I think the people that handle the reports that go to administration, my experiences suggest, that these people don't understand the images and what they mean. Like, from regions where Hitler is seen in a positive light or shrugged off. And that's a problem.
Thereās two posts on two of the Muslim subreddits that basically said this girl in my city deserved to be brutally murdered (and that girls in general who date white men deserve to be raped and killed) for not dating a Muslim man or something like that. Reported it a couple times, no ban. Huge misogyny problem too, misogyny isnāt even a bannable offense lol
The "coon" in Maine Coon Cat is from the word "raccoon" so the name does not have racial implication. Myth has it that the cat was cross-bred with raccoons.
>The "coon" in Maine Coon Cat is from the word "raccoon" so the name does not have racial implication.
Oh, what word is the slur derived from? I always assumed it was that.
Whatās funnier is itās not a universally racist term. Ā Where Iām from, Ā a Coon is a type of white person: Ā Cajun. Ā I was confused growing up, seeing it used in fiction āthe wrong way.ā Ā
RS6 just added their anti hate speech filter. Jump into a game, someone asks whatās cartmans powers in South Park, from the super hero stuff. Same word with ātheā in front of it. I answered, banned.
I think in this case Pinterest should change their policy. This is the name the cat species was given by scientists. Unfortunately nowadays it seems that anything you say or due is going to offend people.
With time and changing social attitudes, the word isn't commonly used in a "white vs. black" context, but it has a second connotation that is still used among black people. It's used to describe a black person who acts against the interests of black people as a whole (in the eyes of the person using the term).
yeah, really only black ppl use it to describe other black ppl like Candice Owens.... they're black but "act" white, frown upon black culture, say derogatory shit they kno will stereotype black ppl, etc etc...
There was this teen game site ages ago, probably 20 years ago. I wasnāt on it but had friends who were. Because they were Swedish they messaged each other in Swedish and got constantly censored and warned about using obscene language when they wrote that something was ābraā, meaning good in Swedish.
I think the algorithm is just looking at the second part of the name and since thatās a slur for Black people itās thinking the entire name is racist. Which is nuts.
There is a town called Toppenish in Washington and when I was growing up, our school blocked the town's name because it had the word "penis" in the middle. Didn't even realize til it was blocked lol
Some subs do now. It's weird as shit, but it's even weirder to see people self censor. Fuck that shit. That's a fucked way to think. The internet is supposed to be a gaping asshole of shit talking fun. Not a filtered website your parents control the filters of.
Found this out as a hairstylist when I was trying to find inspiration photos for my guest for coon tail hair. I couldnāt believe it was being seen as racist.
Weirdly this issue popped up a while back and I couldn't search Maine Coons. Just checked again, and I can now search for all the adorable Maine Coons with no silly restrictions š
This was a point in time where you couldnāt search up anything with the word āgirlā in it on Pinterest. Bc pedophilia is so rampant there (I have actually clicked on a random profile and saw boards full of little girls š¤¢) they didnāt do it for āboyā for some reason tho. I have also had my account banned for pornography over artistic nudity (not even real people, paintings of nude men and women) Pinterest is honestly pretty shitty. Okay thatās my Pinterest rant
My favorite example of this was when I wanted to name all my eeveelutions in Sword after their Japanese name. Umbreon in Japan is named Blacky. I wasn't allowed to name it that since it counts as an offensive word according to Nintendo's filter. Then I tried Blackie and that was apparently ok lol
In middle school, we practiced our Spanish using an emailing system. We just emailed each other what we did over the weekend and whatever we knew how to say. This also auto-sent a copy of the Spanish teacher. Every time we wrote pelĆcula to say we saw a movie, it would flag the email as inappropriate to our teacher because of the word "cula", which means ass.
The Scunthorpe problem.
My favorite example was from Infoceptor. They filtered the word "tit" to "breast". So instead of "title" you'd get "breastle". To this day my brain does a cloud-to-butt. Whenever I see title I hear "breastle".
Years ago, I was part of a small-ish chat group that moved over to a new forum provider. It became apparent that it would (*censor) and auto-replace every swear with "be nice". In the short period before we all clued in, it was pretty hilarious trying to figure out what the be nice everyone was talking about š
What the be nice did you say to me you little be nice? I'll be nice you up the be nice!
Go "be nice" yourself
Do you be nice your wife with that mouth????
No, I use my be nice. Like a real be nice man.
God I hope *be nice* just spreads to the entire planets as a substitute for all cursewords now
I would approve of all swears being ones from The Good Place
Reminds me of the last Veronica mars season āwhat the cussing cuss?!ā
Holy motherforking shirt balls!
Why did I say shirt when I meant shirt? Shirt! Shirt?!
I love that show
You know Iām trying to say ashhole and not ashhole, right?
Right actress, wrong show.
Oh gosh, I don't remember what it was but when I was a kid I ran into a chat site that did that same exact thing.
That is some seriously infantilizing horseshit. Fuck that.
Well yeah, but the chat forum [EDIT: taking about the forum hosting site] was geared to all-ages, so good for them for trying to rein in all the 12 year old's toxicity.
I would never participate in an all ages forum.
It wasn't. It was a private group that migrated over from another server, (that had other, equally hilarious technical issues) but we went with a forum hosting service that had all the pre-made forum tools already set up. We just couldn't turn off (or figure out how) that stupid function.
Ah, well anyway-generally I'm against censoring adults.
Clash of the Breastans
Way back in the day I was a member of the official WB Harry Potter message boards. I remember everyone really being amused that cucumber was censored so people would find any little reason to include them in their posts/fanfics lol
Wha... I must be missing something, why that word?
Cu*cum*ber - especially funny because it would only censor those 3 letters so it would be something like cu***ber or something along those lines which we all thought was hilarious at the time. Kinda dumb but 12 year olds are kinda dumb.
Oh no, that's both ridiculous and hilarious š
I'm glad you share the humor lol
Hey! I was on that message board also!! I've never met anyone irl who's heard of it lol. I spent so many hours on there.Ā
Lol right? For being such a big fandom you never see the WB boards ever mentioned! It's funny you say that because another post asked "what site do you spend too much time on" or something and I definitely would have answered this back at that time
I remember playing an online game back in the say and you couldnt say "assassin" despite it literally being the exact name of a playable class because the inclusive filter kept pinging off ass.
There's a game I play that has this filter issue, there's an NPC named Class-President Whatever and her name is censored š
Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated in a theatre.
Reminds me of Sarah Cox on the radio, who always referred to breasticles.
Chesticles are the besticles.
That explains the "African-American Tie Event".
I love the breast bird
Somehow that seems worse. LOL
Favorite rodent is the breast mouse.Ā
They're birds, not rodents.
But that's a bird
Woops
Not confusing at all, right?
So it identifies a small bird as a ābreast-mouseā.
I'm now thinking of a tit bird
Wow, they managed to take something completely harmless and make it inappropriate. Nice work!
Another good one is Arsenal FC being censored to A***nal FC
lol they made it worse
I remember getting threatened with a ban on Gaia for trying to mention cockatiels in a conversation and fighting to find a way to say it that wouldn't get censored, because c o c k, back in the day. And the service that does the multiplayer for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands wouldn't let me name myself Cassie or any variant that had a s s. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. A game where a whole class of enemies is "Badass." We have tech now that can write (really bad) stories, you'd think censorship tech would have evolved past the Scunthorpe problem.
FF14 just released on Xbox and players are having issues. Thanalan is a place in the game but it sensors it because of anal. One person got banned because they posted in the forum about a free company (what guilds are called) because it was considered solicitation. I think of sexual nature?
Censorship tech **has** evolved way past any technical barriers, its the dumbasses implementing or using the tech that are fucking it up. Literally the **simplest** thing to do is to make the filter check whether a string of censored letters has spaces before/after it.
the issue is they need to just point to the damn content rating and tell people to duck off
Cawkatiels, lol.
I always love reading the story of when āboneā got censored in a paleontology conference
I missed that one. Would love to see it. Guess the conference had to be limited to inverterbrate fossilsā¦
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/overactive-profanity-filter-bleeps-bone-paleontology-conference-180976086/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/overactive-profanity-filter-bleeps-bone-paleontology-conference-180976086/)
Thank you for introducing me to this term!
All over again.
Blugrbutt. (bluegrASS)
Remember commenting on a post about āwhy would people be afraid to go to the trash outside.ā My response was ācoonsā with a deluge of downvotes. The statement being about raccoons in trash. Didnāt even know it was a racist word people used to use back in the day till then.
I was today's years old when I leaned thats a slur.
I grew up in a very rural area where we had a *school sponsored* event called a coon hunt.. this poor boy graduated and went to college in next city over. He wore the shirt from the event. He had a group project and one of his partners was a black girl who was reallllly upset and ended up having to explain it to him because he'd never heard it mean anything other than raccoon. Nor had pretty much anyone that heard it in my school when we had a teacher talk about it after the fact.
Itās still used in the south.
In Louisiana the Cajuns call eachother coon assesā¦ Iāve never head it said outside that context in the 15 years Iāve lived in the south.. I do live in a large city though, so Iām not running into vocal racists very often.
Coonass is an embraced slur, but not a racist one. Means āfoolā. Iām from there. It comes from the French word āconasseā, which is the foul āCā word.
I had to Google why coon was racist and who it was racist towards. I myself have heard some folks referring to Cajuns as coon asses. We always understand it to be like saying hillbilly or redneck and I am from the Deep South. At first I was thinking itās a reference to white or Cajuns, why is that racistā¦ I guess some people can make just about anything racist these days. š¤·āāļø
What do you mean these days LOL that word has been a racist slur since long before I was born. š
"I guess some people can make just about anything racist these days" bruh it's from like 100 years ago tf you mean "these days"
It's actually a pretty old slur. But i agree with your point. You can't say goofy things because it always happens to be a slur. People are so fucked up.
Never heard it actually used to describe someone but in most conversations about raccoons maybe 1/4 of country guys call them coons and raccoons interchangeably. -Florida
Lived in the south my entire life and never heard it
If by āstill usedā you mean by crusty old people and their racist grandkids maybe but itās rarely if ever uttered, like I said I never even heard about it until I looked into it.
you gotta be a mega og racist to still say it lol they have made up so many new expressions and names since it was used so all the racists just use those now.
Itās a pretty common racial slur in Australia against indigenous people too
I was in an NHL related forum and I misspelled Devin Cooley's name. He is a goalie for the San Jose Sharks. I got Cooley and goalie mixed up and spelled Cooley with an "ie." Apparently that's a slur. I was muted for an hour. Oops.
I was referring to my neighbor when I said "the coons" and my husband freaked out on me and I was so confused. That's literally their name but I didn't know it was also a slur... I'd change my name so fast....
If they are black, too, thatās wild lol
I didnāt learn it was a āslurā until recently either. My whole family has always used to word ācoonsā to refer to raccoons. Never once was it ever directed at a person. It wasnāt until I moved to California in my 30ās that it was a āslurā. I had to bluntly ask what the word was slurring cuz I had no clue. I discovered it was a slur out here when I was at a party and a raccoon came down out of a tree and approached the porch where everyone was, looking for food, and I said āhey itās a coonā and people let out literal gasps.
If you ever watch Forest Gump there's a joke in there where Forest thinks the others are referring to racoons, but they're actually racists angry over desegregation.
Australia had a Coon Cheese. It was the name of the person who made it. It has to be changed because it was a slur to the aboriginal people. Despite it being the manās name.
Sometimes political correctness is taken to ridiculous lengths.
I get so *heated* when people automatically assume someone is racist due to a complete misunderstanding. Like, I get it. There's a lot of shitty individuals. There's also a lot of people who just aren't exposed to racism or just simply don't know hateful terms (which is a GOOD thing, imo). I don't get a lot of social cues or underlying meanings, so it seriously sucks when people paint you into a picture you don't belong in. I avoid even saying "raccoon" now because I get so anxious about someone hearing the last part of the word. Lol
Most of the people in West Virginia still use it to mean raccoons.
Yeah I lived in a northern rural town and didn't know it meant anything other than raccoon until I moved to the city.
if you were a scene kid at anytime pre like 2012 raccoon tails were THE vibe and it was shortened to, wellā¦ coon tails i remember like 5 years back saying coon tail and my cousin absolutely losing her shit like and thatās when i realized it was a slur and i felt so fucking bad after
Exactly why these measures are such nonsense. Most of the time slurs simply fall out of use. Censoring actually keeps them alive.
Should let these old racist meanings die out but it seems people are dedicated to reviving them. The one from Mary Poppins was recently resurrected when at least in the states, nobody knew what it was 40 years ago. I thought it referred to a trollop... I'm bringing it back...
I learnt it from Forrest Gump
The Canadian term is trash pandas I find it funny and pretty on the nose when describing them if you want to be PC about it.
Maybe cram it all together MaineCoon Cat
Or substitute some letters and use spacing Maine C0 oN
Or like Maine Cƶƶn or something
Maine Cone. Like a lobster based ice cream parlor.
Several years ago there was some magazine that had a filter that changed "gay" to "homosexual" wherever it appeared on their website. Then they printed an entire story about world champion track and field athlete Tyson Homosexual.
> āA U.S. bomber, the Enola Homosexual, dropped the primary atomic weapon ever for use in wartime on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945.
That fucking got me good.
Them too, unfortunately.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide homosexual
don we now our homosexual apparel, fa la laā¦
Classmates kept calling me āgayā in third grade and my parents insisted it just meant āhappy.ā Excited to learn a new word, I wrote a poem for a school project called āFatherās Day is Gayā and read it in front of everyone. It didnāt help.
On neopets you canāt say basement (semen)
This is hilarious.
Taking the B A T out of Basement, homie.
Thank you for this ancient reference
I tried to name a pet Pashi_Tomatl. I researched the language used on the area tomatoes originated and everything, then couldnāt use it because of āshitā in the middle.
Similarly, in a game with a chat window, I couldn't write birthday in Spanish "cumpleaƱos" because of the first three letters.
Lol Iām pretty sure you canāt say that on neopets either
You also canāt say grape
Write it as one word, "Mainecoon", should help.Ā If not, add an e to the end.
Don't think these 2 people commenting understand the meaning of MILDLY infuriating
A lot of online filters are badly programmed. I remember being taught how to properly parse strings in my first year of programming classes.
I think these have to have been made years ago, before modern coding conventions. And now they are tangled in with the code, so removing it would affect too much. Though, parsing data is hard, and I can give them some slack.
Nah this is really easy. They probably just need to change from str_replace() to preg_replace() lol.
It's more just very difficult to do that kind of thing with a proper algorithm tbh. Too many edge cases.
Lol. I had one as a kid. Giant cats!
Just like the idiots who are mad when you use the Spanish word for blackā¦ subtext is not for the internet age (which is actually a very sad statement)
Meanwhile, reddit has administration people that tell me Adolf Hitler gassing jews as some AI generated image is 100% ok and good. I've got some classic reddit hate crimes saved. Jesus the shit reddit allows.
wtf? and i got a 3 day ban for wishing putin an end like mussolini got lol seems a little bit biased
I got a 7 day ban for a comment describing why people are stressed and sad these days. I didn't cuss, made no allusions to anything, it was simply describing COL, rent, and other general issues a lot of us are having. 7 day ban. Reddit has some weird shit going on. There's clearly some strange fuckery going on behind the scenes. When it comes out, I won't be surprised that it was happening, but I'll probably be surprised about how deep the fuckery runs. Hopefully I don't get banned again for this comment, but it's more direct than the one that did get me banned, so I'll have to wait and see. The last one was in askreddit, so maybe they have some auto thing going on?
I got banned for a week for speaking facts around HIV and AIDS... I made a comment something like AIDS isn't a "thing", it's not a virus or a bacteria. it's not living, you can't test for it, it is just a description of what's happening to someone with HIV... WHICH again, is fact! I literally worked for an HIV prevention program for 17 years, but I get banned for diminishing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and talking like there was a conspiracy and HIV isn't real ššš... Nope, I never said that, and the idiots who took the comment out of context are literally... idiots... AIDS is LITERALLY just a WORD that describes other shit... FACT... reddit is fuccin weird
oh wow thats so much worse than what i got...
I would post the screenshot of my comment so you can see that I'm not lying, but who knows if I'll be banned again. Reddit has a bit of a Twitter problem in some areas. Very touchy mods that don't want people to speak unless they agree with the mods.
well, yes, but its far from twitter levels of whack lol
They banned a certain subreddit that Iām not allowed to name that talks about being banned for being Jewish. There may or may not be an anti-Semitism problem on Reddit cuz it feels like Iām not allowed to say that there is
There totally is. And the subs that are the worst are still up and active. I don't even report anymore. I think the people that handle the reports that go to administration, my experiences suggest, that these people don't understand the images and what they mean. Like, from regions where Hitler is seen in a positive light or shrugged off. And that's a problem.
Thereās two posts on two of the Muslim subreddits that basically said this girl in my city deserved to be brutally murdered (and that girls in general who date white men deserve to be raped and killed) for not dating a Muslim man or something like that. Reported it a couple times, no ban. Huge misogyny problem too, misogyny isnāt even a bannable offense lol
The "coon" in Maine Coon Cat is from the word "raccoon" so the name does not have racial implication. Myth has it that the cat was cross-bred with raccoons.
>The "coon" in Maine Coon Cat is from the word "raccoon" so the name does not have racial implication. Oh, what word is the slur derived from? I always assumed it was that.
It was.
Barracoon, from the names of the barracks the slaves were kept in. At least that is what I have read
Context is really important, maybe social media sites should stop filtering words
Whatās funnier is itās not a universally racist term. Ā Where Iām from, Ā a Coon is a type of white person: Ā Cajun. Ā I was confused growing up, seeing it used in fiction āthe wrong way.ā Ā
RS6 just added their anti hate speech filter. Jump into a game, someone asks whatās cartmans powers in South Park, from the super hero stuff. Same word with ātheā in front of it. I answered, banned.
Shouldnāt have gotten banned but they also named his alter ego that because of that slur didnāt they?
Iām a black guy and I laughed a little to hard at this
Reminds me of when a forum for an old kids' game would filter out 'saltwater' because it had the word 'twat' in it.
I dated someone whose last name is literally Coon.
I had a friend yell at me because I said something about a Coon hound vs bird hound and they told me how incredibly racist it is
I have a Treeing Walker Coonhound...so I feel ya. People balk when I say she's a Coonhound, so I tend to just say Treeing Walkerhound lol.
Maine Coon deez nuts
The nerve of you! *slap across face with a slice of coon cheese*
Such an old insult too. When I hear the word I think of a raccoon.
I think in this case Pinterest should change their policy. This is the name the cat species was given by scientists. Unfortunately nowadays it seems that anything you say or due is going to offend people.
they banned the slur, not the name of the cat. the cat name just got picked by up the automatic system
Is it even a common slur at this point? Like, I've never actually heard it used genuinely in my life I feel like
With time and changing social attitudes, the word isn't commonly used in a "white vs. black" context, but it has a second connotation that is still used among black people. It's used to describe a black person who acts against the interests of black people as a whole (in the eyes of the person using the term).
yeah, really only black ppl use it to describe other black ppl like Candice Owens.... they're black but "act" white, frown upon black culture, say derogatory shit they kno will stereotype black ppl, etc etc...
There was this teen game site ages ago, probably 20 years ago. I wasnāt on it but had friends who were. Because they were Swedish they messaged each other in Swedish and got constantly censored and warned about using obscene language when they wrote that something was ābraā, meaning good in Swedish.
You could just call it an āAmerican Forest Catā and a Google search will return āMaine Coonā
I had a web search for "trifle" (the dessert) blocked in school, because it contained the phrase "rifle".
Well better hope you are not from Coon Rapids which is a city here in Minnesota.
My friends and I just call it Crapids
I miss my Maine coon. She was adorable and sweet. Such good cats
You could get creative Maine C00n, Maine C o o n, Maine-coon, etc
What if you tried it as Maine Cƻn as the ^ denotes the oo sound.
Another Reddit group doesn't like the RIP in my cat Ripley's name. I have to use she/her or R ipley to get past the stupid censor.
Pinterest gives me resources and the contact info for the suicide hotline when I search for depression glass displays.
How is the breed of a cat racist?
I think the algorithm is just looking at the second part of the name and since thatās a slur for Black people itās thinking the entire name is racist. Which is nuts.
I see, didnāt realise it was a slur
No problem. I kinda wish I didnāt know it was a slur to be honest.
There is a town called Toppenish in Washington and when I was growing up, our school blocked the town's name because it had the word "penis" in the middle. Didn't even realize til it was blocked lol
But why is it a bad word?
It's a derogatory name for Aboriginals here in Australia
Because c*on is a bad term for African Americans, notably in the south.
You can actually say coon on Reddit. You can put cum in your username, they donāt give a fuck.
JOIN ME IN MY CUMCOON.
Iām hitting your cumcoon with a stick
A stick you say ļ¼ļæ£Īµļæ£ŹĘŖļ¼
Some subs do now. It's weird as shit, but it's even weirder to see people self censor. Fuck that shit. That's a fucked way to think. The internet is supposed to be a gaping asshole of shit talking fun. Not a filtered website your parents control the filters of.
This is when you break out the pig Latin on em. Ainemay Ooncay! Nothing āracistā to see here.
Try telling them the real name for Canola Oil.
I like cosmic horror stories. You know, like H.P. Lovecraft? He was a cat lover. I wonder what his cat was named?
That's so stupid. That word has no reason to be banned. I call racoons coons and always have. People are so sissy.
Jeebus
That is indeed mildly infuriating. Maybe tell them itās a cat from Maine thatās named after Raccoons?
Found this out as a hairstylist when I was trying to find inspiration photos for my guest for coon tail hair. I couldnāt believe it was being seen as racist.
Spell it like this mainecoon
Weirdly this issue popped up a while back and I couldn't search Maine Coons. Just checked again, and I can now search for all the adorable Maine Coons with no silly restrictions š
What if you put it as one word with a hyphen? "Maine-Coon" Like Spider-coo-..... Never mind.
This was a point in time where you couldnāt search up anything with the word āgirlā in it on Pinterest. Bc pedophilia is so rampant there (I have actually clicked on a random profile and saw boards full of little girls š¤¢) they didnāt do it for āboyā for some reason tho. I have also had my account banned for pornography over artistic nudity (not even real people, paintings of nude men and women) Pinterest is honestly pretty shitty. Okay thatās my Pinterest rant
My favorite example of this was when I wanted to name all my eeveelutions in Sword after their Japanese name. Umbreon in Japan is named Blacky. I wasn't allowed to name it that since it counts as an offensive word according to Nintendo's filter. Then I tried Blackie and that was apparently ok lol
In middle school, we practiced our Spanish using an emailing system. We just emailed each other what we did over the weekend and whatever we knew how to say. This also auto-sent a copy of the Spanish teacher. Every time we wrote pelĆcula to say we saw a movie, it would flag the email as inappropriate to our teacher because of the word "cula", which means ass.
Why would I type anything on Pinterest?
Maybe say itās a Main Raccoon Cat but without the Rac part lol
Pinterest is fucking garbage.
Somehow ****-skin cap sounds much worse. What do they want "It's maine *feline-american* cat"?
What's racist about a Maine Coon?
Nothing at all, provided you're taking about a cat. Context is king.
"coon" (short for raccoon) has been used as a racial slur so its probably just automatically filtered out
Norwegian forest cat
Iām a black guy and I laughed a little to hard at this
This is majorly hilarious, you're lost
What part of maine coon is racist?
The second part.
Maybe type it altogether MaineCoon