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The entire world wide internet is a "hotbed for racist and sexist rhetoric share" (as well as partisan political nonsense), the true question is why we even have a thread on it, in the history forum.
Where else does it belong? And frankly any unmonitored site can become a hotbed for remarks about others one would not make in the real world. Even CD would become such without mods.
Where else does it belong? And frankly any unmonitored site can become a hotbed for remarks about others one would not make in the real world. Even CD would become such without mods.
Since Urban Dictionary is a website, my vote would be to "internet" subforum, which is located in the Science & Technology forum of CD.
For example I already see a discussion there in regards to Reddit and internet toxicity which falls exactly in line with this discussion.
I once was temporarily suspended from this very site because of a certain three-letter sequence I used whose meaning should've been obvious in context, but apparently was not to some officious City-Data user, who instead looked it up on Urban Dictionary, where a very different (and quite obscure) meaning for said three-letter sequence was found and wrongly applied to my usage.
I once was temporarily suspended from this very site because of a certain three-letter sequence I used whose meaning should've been obvious in context, but apparently was not to some officious City-Data user, who instead looked it up on Urban Dictionary, where a very different (and quite obscure) meaning for said three-letter sequence was found and wrongly applied to my usage.
An automatic censor changed a post I made in the Food Forum for me here once. I'm still trying to figure out what atrocity I must have spewed.
Sometimes the mind of the reader or hearer is more twisted than intention warranted.
I have no quarrel with Urban Dictionary. It a valid repository of common (and uncommon) modern usage. Some of that usage is dispicable and I probably would not even encounter much of it given my age and my social or cultural circle. But I'm glad that there is an archive, of sorts, where modern terms and usage are recorded. There is a lot of non-urban, regional usage and terms that also need to be collected. In the sense that it is an archive (albeit a flawed one) of language usage, it has some historical value. (There, I answered my own question.)
Communication is not always easy between people or groups or generations so it serves a purpose. As a writer I can also see this as a valuable resource for creating dialogue among fictional characters.
Not to worry, the EU will soon implement a 21st century version of the IngSoc's Newspeak dictionary. Each year they will celebrate the elimination of words that might offend someone or conflict with government approved plans and edicts. About time — doubleplusgood!
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