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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I had a post removed today for using the word "spook" in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The word spook was only racist for a very short period of history, I mean it’s still racist but it’s very archaic. Most people don’t know what it means, it’s best we censor it though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, its unambiguously a slur in certain usages, might as well.

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