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Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Apparently "cotton" and "Mexican" are slurs

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I could definitely see how cotton could be used in some pretty heinous ways, maybe not by definition slurrs, but still. Given the historical context of the United States In particular.

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