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Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 3 months ago (1 children)

any better source than a random discord screenshot?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Looks fake based on the response format alone honestly…

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Would be a flag in the backend not a full list sent to the client.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

You don’t get your slurs sent via your authentication provider’s “freezepeach-as-a-service” API? Sounds like your app is “woke” smh

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago

Not to mention there are A LOT more slurs. There are pages and pages, it wouldn't be a list like this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Apparently "cotton" and "Mexican" are slurs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God damn, my shirts are made of c*tton, sorry bros

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You lucky bastard. Mine is made of Mexicans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

How dare you to type "cotton" and "Mexican"!