Leftist hate speech OK

Leftists say many hateful things about whites but that is OK

Facebook has de-prioritized removing hateful slurs against white people, men and Americans, instead focusing on blocking slurs against black people, gays, Jews and other groups.

The change on Thursday in Facebook's algorithm is a shift from the social network's 'race-blind' system that previously removed anti-white insults as well posts such as 'men are dumb' or 'Americans are stupid.'

The changes are to the social network's automated systems, meaning hateful posts about whites, men or Americans that are reported by users can still be deleted if they violate Facebook policies.

'We know that hate speech targeted towards under-represented groups can be the most harmful, which is why we have focused our technology on finding the hate speech that users and experts tell us is the most serious,' said Facebook spokeswoman Sally Aldous.

Roughly 10,000 fewer posts are now being deleted each day after the change in policy, according to documents reported by the Washington Post.

Over the past year, Facebook has also updated its policies to catch more implicit hate speech, such as depictions of blackface and stereotypes about Jewish people, Aldous noted.

'Thanks to significant investments in our technology we proactively detect 95 percent of the content we remove and we continue to improve how we enforce our rules as hate speech evolves over time,' Aldous said.

The software tweak will initially target the most blatant slurs, including those against black people, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community and Jews, Facebook said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019539/Facebook-prioritizes-removing-slurs-against-white-people-men-Americans.html

BBC's 'woke dictionary' to stop staff causing offence: Staff will be given language guide to help 'rewire' the corporation and avoid upsetting viewers and listeners

BBC staff will be given a language guide to help them avoid offending viewers and listeners.

The move is part of plans to increase staff diversity and improve the portrayal of under-represented groups on screen.

Director-general Tim Davie said the initiative was ‘mission-critical’ and decisions about the use of language needed to be made by ‘a diverse group of people’.

A BBC reporter sparked a row – and 18,500 complaints – earlier this year by using the N-word in a crime story.

The corporation also apologised for broadcasting the same offensive term on a BBC2 programme called American History’s Biggest Fibs.

June Sarpong, BBC director of creative diversity, said the language guide would be published in January ‘offering our creative teams support’.

She added: ‘It’s not in any way saying they have to use this terminology, but it’s offering them support in terms of the kind of language that doesn’t cause offence.’

Mr Davie said the BBC needed a ‘rewiring of the core’ so that it would be ‘overt and direct that we are an anti-racist organisation’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9015477/BBC-Director-general-Tim-Davie-calls-diversity-drive-mission-critical.html

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