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i think removing this for ableism is a bit much. as a person who's had clinical psychosis i can't say americans are psychotic? c'mon
You might want to make a discussion post on /c/hexbear. There was some debate during the recent CoC update about the ableist terminology rules (regarding trying to find a balance where ableism was removed, but things that were not ableist were not, depending on context, etc.), I think it's a subject that could use more input and discussion.
I might but I also come to hexbear to chill. I don't care enough to start a whole struggle session. It's just weird to me "psychotic" (and in a previous comment of mine "lunatic") are considered ableist while it's perfectly accepted to call people stupid or idiots.
those last two are fully demedicalized at least. censoring ableist language very quickly becomes about how much etymology we expect people to know and what therapy speak the clowns on social media decide to butcher.
These should be removed, I think. Honestly, I think enforcement on this should consider context much more than the specific word used.
I agree that context is important. Also just to be clear I'm talking about in relation to our comments on posts. For example, saying "stupid Americans" vs "crazy Americans"
I understand the history behind the bigotry and oppression of neurodivergent people and why using "crazy" etc as an epithet should be discouraged, I just think the enforcement has been heavy handed is all.
Didn't that entire proposed escalation of the existing rules get cut due to being soundly rejected by everyone as ridiculous? It seemed like that passage was pretty much just something the person who'd submitted the rough draft to the admins tried to smuggle in unprompted alongside the reformatting of the existing rules, which didn't pass public scrutiny during that big open forum thread.
There were too many separate discussions going on to keep track of everything, but I could see that it was apparently there when originally posted and gone by the time I saw the thread, and that the response to those lines was overwhelmingly negative prior to their removal from the proposal.
The list of prohibited terms was scrapped. Ableism is still prohibited by the rules, at the moment I think what is considered ableist is up to moderator discretion.