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Simple: no racism, sexism or any other de-humanizing speech based on identity is "clean enough".

• striking 11y ago
  How would you define the line between race discussion and racism? Or between meaningful discourse about gender/sex and sexism?
  • baltar 11y ago
    It's not my job to pick a definition but Twitter's (and other social sites'). In fact, they already did (defining "hateful conduct"): "You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease." Pretty basic stuff. If it was my choice, I'd pick a wider definition, accepting that there will be an area of uncertainty and errors. However, I think that it is still far better to exclude some people (for a while?) than to e.g. subject many more people to constantly being called pejorative terms (including implications to being a slave, an animal or an exhibit)/belittled because of identity/violently threatened etc. You could also see it this way: up to now the officially used definition was in effect that nothing is racist/sexist.