TikTok algo forbids phrase “black people” but not “white people” among others
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I'd assume that it's a blunt filter that tries to catch racism by not allowing people to say "black" in their advertising profiles. The reason "white" isn't caught up in this filter is probably because the consensus doesn't consider it to be racism when directed at whites ("racism = power + prejudice", all whites have institutional power, etc). I'd guess that the same block would be in place for other groups that are considered to be the "oppressed" instead of the "oppressors" under the childish, binary framework that afflicts so many these days. I'd also guess that "Trying to fix white people" or "Against white people" would be allowed, while the analogues for "black" wouldn't be.
That is to say, their threat model is aimed at _negative_ racial phrases, not positive ones (even ones that they wouod definitely reject under manual review, like "pro white supremacy"). The examples in the video are artifacts of this clumsy approach, not evidence of a conspiracy to keep black creators down like the metaphorical Alex Jones in the OP video claims.
I don't agree that there is consensus on this definition. It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial.
> It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial.
It has been around since the 1960s, as an academic curiosity. In the last half decade to decade, it metastasized into the rest of society and embedded itself deeply, almost religiously, into all of the institutions that shape our discourse.
There's no such thing as a society-wide consensus, on pretty much anything (you can even find thoughtful "legalize possession of child porn" takes, like Falkvinge's). But institutional consensus is as close as we come to this, and has real and significant coercive (and doctrinal) power in the form of the media, university curriculums, HR departments, PR departments, etc etc etc.
Oh please. The attempt to redefine "racism" to exclude white people is itself hilariously racist. It's propaganda that tries to influence people through deceptive language. If the people behind that had honest intentions they would have created a new word to describe the phenomenon rather than try to redefine existing words.
You won't find a relevant textbook in use in major universities that doesn't support this definition, perhaps even explicitly. It would be a brave politician to openly object to this concept.
What is said in private may be different, but publicly this definition has the consensus in the modern West.
The dictionary.com definition for racism says nothing about power being a requirement:
A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
They do have a lot of power, so aren't they capable of being racist against white people, even when racism is defined as power+prejudice?
I'm just pointing out the obvious logical mistake being made by generally rational academics and textbook authors. Obviously we don't often see reason triumph over political advantage among politicians and the press, but without the support of educators that redefinition would have far less support.
> We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized. For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals with abuse based on protected category.
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Note the weight of "Particularly" above.
Reddit had a similar policy but recently removed the clause "For example, the rule does not protect groups who are in the majority".
The fact that there's a consensus around it (especially the narrower type of consensus that motivates the content policies of a social network) doesn't at all imply support. It's simply not what the word means.
Because that's what he does in the video attached to the article and TikTok is totally fine with that. The phrase "black people" is a no go, though.
Next time, you should probably try clicking the link and maybe reading the article or something before you decide to comment on it. You come out much better that way.