• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      oh you used that one. So a few years back it was pointed out that the word has anti-black roots on top of having significant connections to channer lingo, it was more or less decided that it’s more hassle than its worth arguing over and threw the word in the slur filter gulag.

        • Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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          I think comrade’s talking about derivatives of “glow”, not the Stirnerite/Halloween one.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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          there’s like 5 years of hexbear lore where we’ve argued over all sorts of shit so to a lot of old heads this stuff’s well hashed out but new folks won’t have a clue about. I mean a good example of this is that we used to have a comm called the dunk tank where, by the name sounds, you post things from dorks and dipshits to dunk on. Problem was that it was eventually learned that dunk tanks, like this historical thing where you throw a ball at a button trigger to drop someone in a tub of water, originally started in the U.S as a game for dunking black americans a la “African dodger” (being the most tasteful name out of all the others) eventually leading to that comm being shut down and reopened as the “slop” comm because we’re all hungry little piggies looking to get fed our trash.

          • dastanktal [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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            Well I am definitely a hungry piggy that loves slop I had no idea about the dunk tanks. Man the united states is super racist its just like hidden surface deep.

            I wish there was like a lore place for the history of hexbear. Better it was wild.

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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              you could probably make a post, with a picture of a fat brown bear, and say “Hey I’m mainly new to hexbear, please dump site lore on me like you’re dumping slop in a pig trough” and get a bunch of info like that.

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              English language itself is like minefield of racism old and new, harsh for non-native speakers to discover it by permban from comrades :(

              • dastanktal [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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                Yeah I can definitely see that and empathize. I am native speaker and I am constantly finding out old popular terms are racist and I had no clue.

                I can’t imagine how hard it is for non native English speakers.