There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.
There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.
Alright I’ll finally ask: In my Lemmy app (“Boost for Lemmy” on Android) your post’s first sentence shows “In my language removed is used”. I’m assuming the word you originally typed has been censored, but I’m not sure if this is a Lemmy thing, a lemmy.ml thing, or some app setting I missed.
Can others view the uncensored version of your post? Because then it’s probably something to do with the app I’m using.
Been bugging me for months.
It’s because .ML is retarded.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1464
Instances can choose words to go into a slur filter. They get auto removed. If it’s your home instance doing it then every instance will see the removed version.
Thanks you, makes sense!
It’s probably a lemmy.world censorship - I’m also from .ml but I don’t think it can control what we can read on other instances, and this post is on .world.
It isn’t .world. I’m on piefed.social I show your first message with removed and a couple comments down I see the actual word, so it’s something on .ml
Well, if it’s .ml and not .world, it’s easy to test as you are from neither. Type the real word r*tarded and you should be able to read it - if it’s .ml, perhaps I won’t be able to read it. Above a guy from .ca posted a wikipedia link containing the word and it’s censored for me.
Does the link still work?
Edit: I found it at the bottom- no.
Here goes nothing…
removed
Edit: Well I’m certainly not able to post the word, but I’m still unsure if this is a Boost, .ml, or thread instance thing.
It’s .ml
It’s the most censored instance I’m aware of.
It’s a ml thing. They’re not big on free speech.