I’d wager that most people who engage in conversation that results in a ban are completely unaware beforehand that what they are saying is considered so offensive by someone else that they are risking getting reported and banned.
Almost no one who gets banned is trying to get banned.
That isn’t really true. Not to mention, if it can get you banned, then the person who typed/used or w/e most likely knew what they meant. There isn’t a slur out there that doesn’t have some sort of negative, demeaning definition that hasn’t been defined as such for years.
[quote=“Momotarou-zuljin, post:113, topic:206697, full:true”] There isn’t a slur out there that doesn’t have some sort of negative, demeaning definition that hasn’t been defined as such for years.
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Hey man, a whole bunch of people recently got banned on a twitch stream for making Naga jokes. Blizzard recently banned someone from Overwatch because they made an “ok” sign with their hand.
So I think maybe you are behind the times on how sensitive the outrage culture has become.
edit: you deleted your post. That’s why the quoting is messed up.
Is there a reference I can access that tells me what all of the up-to-date offensive terms are? Because I don’t want to spend my life reading twitter posts to figure out what it is each week.
Sorry, I only deleted it cause I originally did not hit reply to you, rather to the general thread. I wanted to make sure it was a reply to you , for context sake. It said the same thing as under it…i think…
No, I am well aware of what people are sensitive too. The ok sign thing has been going on for about 2 years now for example.
I think maybe you’re just too old and slow to keep up with how quickly meanings can change in modern society.
The “okay” sign thing came up through overt right wing trolling. Hardcore conservatives thought it would be funny guy to start spreading the rumor online that the okay hand gesture was now being used as a secret code for white supremacists to identify themselves to each other. It wasn’t. Naturally, the media went hysterical with it though, as they tend to do. But something else happened too… As it got notoriety, actually white supremacists who weren’t in on the original joke started using it earnestly. It became impossible to tell who was trolling hysterical media, who was not paying attention to anything around them, and who the white supremacists were. And so trolls ruined something for everyone, because even though it started as a joke, it is a legitimate callsign for white supremacists now.