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Scunthorpe problem (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

In June 2008, a news site run by the anti-LGBT lobby group American Family Association filtered an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of "gay" with "homosexual", thus rendering his name as "Tyson Homosexual".

Why would they do this? Why replace a non-offensive word with a non-offensive synonym?

[–] shalafi 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gay used to be more of an insult, especially for a site like that, and my gay friends called themselves f's. Different world.

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 3 weeks ago

They like to be very clinical about it. It keeps us from coming off too human to them