Urban Dictionary Gets Woke

[GURPS]

Urban Dictionary plays an important role in defining language on the internet and popular culture. To do this right and to earn the role you’ve entrusted us with, we need to make sure our system measures up to our values. The site has always been a place for people to define the messier edges of language, but we can’t allow it to foster hate.

Words matter — it’s kind of our whole thing here — but actions matter more:

• We will not allow Urban Dictionary to be a home for hate speech and abusive content. We support the work of Black Lives Matter to dismantle systemic racism. We accept our own responsibility to fight racism and hate, and acknowledge that we have failed to keep abusive content off our site.
• We take this work seriously and it is our priority. We are reviewing our core processes on how words are added, reviewed, published and removed. We are investing in technology and human review to better enforce our standards. We’ll post updates on our progress here.
• We will change as hate speech changes. No single fix will work forever. Hate speech and abusive content will evolve, and we’re committed to changing our policies to meet it.

As we rethink the dictionary, we want to hear from you. Urban Dictionary is written by you, and we want you to be involved while we decide what is and isn’t acceptable on it. Please share your thoughts in the form below. In a few weeks, we’ll share what we’ve learned from your feedback.

https://urbandictionary.blog/

 

[Monello]

The urban dictionary gives itself a dirty sanchez.

 

[vraiblonde]

By doing this, they are reinforcing their own systemic racism.

"Black people are too fragile to see words that might hurt their feelings, so we white saviors are here to protect them!"



WHITE LIBERALS ARE THE WORST!!