Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.
Yet another example of mentions of queer identities being filed as pornography.
#italiano #kansas #kickoff
Which presumably show racism towards Italians, a hatred of the midwest, and a dislike of football?
Or maybe Instagram has an automated system which correlated hashtags with reported porn. Tags with greater than X% reported porn get banned.
If that's true (and we have no reason to think it is or isn't true), then the banned tags come out simply because the #bi, etc. people happen to use those tags more for porn than (presumably) #straight people.
I'm wary of waving the racism / sexism / whatism flag. We're not all racist. We're not all sexist.
If that was a consistent pattern, maybe, but I am yet to hear of it.
> Or maybe Instagram has an automated system which correlated hashtags with reported porn.
> I'm wary of waving the racism / sexism / whatism flag. We're not all racist. We're not all sexist.
Maybe it's automated, sure. Maybe it's not directly intended. Doesn't change the outcome.
Also, no, everyone is racist and sexist to varying extents, it's not a binary. Humans are imperfect.
Not everyone and everything is racist and sexist, stop peddling this histrionic narrative. If it's automated, are you claiming that algorithms are racist or sexist? The outcome isn't shaming a sexual orientation any more than x + 3 = 9 is "six shaming."
Now, I don't know that I agree with that claim (certainly not without reservations at least), but I think that the idea of an algorithm contributing to a harmful phenomenon, and that being bad, is not an obviously wrong idea.
I don't think your argument against theirs is a very good one. Something better than your x + 3 = 9 quip would be needed to refute it.
I'm saying this as someone who also disagrees with the worldview you are arguing against.
/epistemic virtue signaling
Sometimes a cute riposte or simple response is all that's needed to defuse absurdity. Debating with someone plainly calling everyone racist and sexist isn't likely to bear fruit.
I wish we could get to a state in which the professionally offended would stop wasting others' time and encouraging this doublespeak-nonsense game -- there's only so many minutes in the day and we both wasted daylight on this.
The result is the same: three very meaningful tags that can't be used.
Moral outrage isn't justified in this case. Sorry.
They should react in a fashion that does not involve blocking hashtags with multiple meanings.