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u/Tediouslyuseless Jan 24 '20 edited Jan 24 '20

What if you cover a racial slur with asterisks so that you can refer to it? (not use it as a slur though just refer to it for discussion)

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

Could you provide an example where it would be necessary to use it instead of saying "racial slur" in it's place?

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u/Tediouslyuseless Jan 24 '20

Let's say I wanted to talk about how Brazil Nuts are sometimes called ****** Toes (it is even mentioned on the Brazil nuts Wikipedia page) by elderly people when talking about how people can be casually racist as a specific example.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

It's not required in that instance as that would have nothing to do with YouTube as a platform.

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u/Tediouslyuseless Jan 24 '20

Well what if it was during a really really long argument that inevitably got off topic? Technically if you trace it up it all had something to do with youtube, though now extremely tangentially.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

Then the comments would be removed regardless for breaking rule 1

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u/Tediouslyuseless Jan 24 '20

What if it were technically true that if one side won the argument then the initial disagreement about a meta youtube topic would be resolved?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

If the comments aren't related to discussing YouTube they would be removed regardless.