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Comment by cmcaleer | Hacker News Reader

S*yb*y is now a slur on the same level as racial slurs now?

I don’t know why an array in source code would imply an ordering to you; it’s much more likely the author just picked a a list online.

Note that this list also contains several terms that are either reappropriations or contextual uses, and only applies to usernames. This is more or less what any social media network of a nontrivial size does.

not an ordering, but a threshold, "as bad as" to the extent it's on the same list

“Threshold” means “at least,” not “as bad as.” I don’t think anybody thinks that the two are meaningfully comparable in badness.

No one has said that they are on the same level?

They are literally in the same flat array

That just means that they both meet the same bar. It doesn't follow that they are equally horrible.

Murder and tax evasion are both crimes, does that mean they're on the same level?

They're on the same level insofar as it's been deemed serious enough by someone to put on this list. Just funny to see it on a list filled with ethnic slurs and a couple disability slurs, looks very out of place to see an extremely-online insult alongside slurs with tons of historical baggage.

Does it really surprise you to see an extremely-online insult being included in a black list for an app for extremely-online people? I genuinely can't understand the confusion.

It took me almost a full minute to figure out what this is supposed to be.

I think it’s “SoyBoy” for anyone clueless as me.

the whole userbase of bluesky, judging by how they're acting right now.

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