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Yes, and the issue is the level of offense and threat. My curiosity is why a web site would think that it’s ok for people to be offended by “God dammit” but not

Yes, and the issue is the level of offense and threat. My curiosity is why a web site would think that it’s ok for people to be offended by “God dammit” but not by “[racial slur].” I’m not really offended by profanity or blasphemy, but many are. So I don’t think it’s based on number of people offended. I think I understand why hate speech is particularly dangerous, but it seems funny that other offensive speech is deemed acceptable. For example, HN allows profanity and blasphemy but not racial slurs (whether targeted or not).

wolverine876 5y ago
> I’m not really offended by profanity or blasphemy, but many are. > it seems funny that other offensive speech is deemed acceptable. For example, HN allows profanity and blasphemy ... I'm interested to know what your experiences are with this? I don't recall seeing a complaint about blasphemy in an Internet forum. However, I haven't quite yet read the entire Internet ... What blasphemy is on HN? I could imagine statements that unknowingly violate a theological tenant - for example, to some using the word beginning G... for the monotheistic deity is blasphemous [edit: to some religions] (which, given the circumstances, I'll avoid). But I am not aware of any knowing blasphemy - there is so little religion here that it's not even an issue. Hate speech directed at a religion would (or should) be outside the guidelines, but that's regardless of the blasphemy of it.
- prepend 5y ago
  I’m not offended by blasphemy, but searching HN [0] reveals the following submissions that could offend people who are Catholic/Christian and don’t like blasphemy: - “Jesus Christ, Use a Password Manager Already” - “ Revision 2020 Demoscene Event Live – Praise Jesus Christ” - “ So, just by looking at the box of pizza, you're going to judge that the pizza tastes bad? Jesus Christ man...” [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22jesus+christ%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22jesus+christ%22
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    I see what you mean. I would guess that if you asked many people on HN, they wouldn't realize that it was offensive to anyone.

wolverine876 5y ago

> I’m not really offended by profanity or blasphemy, but many are. > it seems funny that other offensive speech is deemed acceptable. For example, HN allows profanity and blasphemy ... I'm interested to know what your experiences are with this? I don't recall seeing a complaint about blasphemy in an Internet forum. However, I haven't quite yet read the entire Internet ... What blasphemy is on HN? I could imagine statements that unknowingly violate a theological tenant - for example, to some using the word beginning G... for the monotheistic deity is blasphemous [edit: to some religions] (which, given the circumstances, I'll avoid). But I am not aware of any knowing blasphemy - there is so little religion here that it's not even an issue. Hate speech directed at a religion would (or should) be outside the guidelines, but that's regardless of the blasphemy of it.

prepend 5y ago
I’m not offended by blasphemy, but searching HN [0] reveals the following submissions that could offend people who are Catholic/Christian and don’t like blasphemy: - “Jesus Christ, Use a Password Manager Already” - “ Revision 2020 Demoscene Event Live – Praise Jesus Christ” - “ So, just by looking at the box of pizza, you're going to judge that the pizza tastes bad? Jesus Christ man...” [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22jesus+christ%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22jesus+christ%22
- wolverine876 5y ago
  I see what you mean. I would guess that if you asked many people on HN, they wouldn't realize that it was offensive to anyone.