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

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doona@aussie.zone
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Looks fake based on the response format alone honestly…

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Not to mention there are A LOT more slurs. There are pages and pages, it wouldn’t be a list like this.

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Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org
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Would be a flag in the backend not a full list sent to the client.

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

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z500@startrek.website
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Apparently “cotton” and “Mexican” are slurs

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thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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How dare you to type “cotton” and “Mexican”!

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Kaboom@reddthat.com
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God damn, my shirts are made of c*tton, sorry bros

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Iapar@feddit.org
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You lucky bastard. Mine is made of Mexicans.

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megopie@beehaw.org
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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.

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