i made a new post then it immediately said my post must be approved by moderation and censored my post.
i know it was ai because it appeared immediately, it could be some new feature built into tapatalk.
I donāt know what tapatalk is, but sometimes it will auto-moderate the (arbitrary) number of minutes/seconds I have to wait until I can post again.
I believe this forum uses tapatalk but Iām not sure.
Itās not AI, itās just automatic moderation triggering on specific words.
Your post was held for review because you used the word ānegroesā. And in this case I think you should change it. I donāt know if you are not a native speaker or are not from the US, but in the US thatās an inflammatory way to refer to black people, and would be taken as an insult by most black Americans.
Itās also unnecessary, as your use of āblackā in the preceding sentence demonstrates.
It uses Discourse.
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i am from US and have never heard negro as word considered offensive. It seems like a new 2025 wokes thing and i never heard of that before
Iām not sure what āas a wordā means here. There are non-offensive uses of ānegroā, e.g. the United Negro College Fund, and apparently the US Census added it as a synonym for āBlackā in 2010, but coverage from that time shows the decision was controversial (e.g. āNegroā Race Choice On Census Form Sparks Outrage), and it was removed in 2013 due to complaints.
Despite non-offensive uses, it is still considered a slur and generally offensive. Wikipedia includes it on its list of ethnic slurs as a synonym for āniggerā (though there are many non-english words included in that list). Miriam-Webster has it as ādated, often offensiveā when used to refer to black people, in particular when used by non-black people. The NY Daily News has gone as far as to expunge it from its archive, replacing it with ā[African-Americans]ā (see e.g. this 1956 article about a Supreme Court ruling on segregation, and compare the text in the image with the text on the website).
I agree that it is less clearly offensive than some alternatives, but I donāt think itās controversial to say that in a context like the one in which you use it, i.e. to refer to black people, it is generally considered offensive in the modern US.
Bullshitā¦. unless you live under a rock in the south or the Appalachians. Kudos on discovering the Internet.
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This is woke insanity. I have never heard anyone say the word Negro is offensive, and blacks refer to themselves as Negroes all the time. Wokes will become so soft that eventually they will become the wicked witch and nothing more than a puddle. In 2026 probably the word āblackā will be considered offensive and everyone must say that that there is only one race - human.
I feel like I am a 8 year old in day care once again getting lectured by a Karen. I thought as an adult I would have freedom instead of being told what is and isnāt offensive like some kind of Christian Daycare for 8 year olds, but not so it seems.
ā¦are you black? no? Then shut up.
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Since I just showed you a dictionary definition and two articles that say that the word ānegroā is offensive, this is false.
Will people stop with this āwokeā excuse one day?
What is your definition of woke, F1?
My definition of woke is AAA gaming, DEI and people offended by the word Negro and saying it is the new āNā word. When I was in school, ānegroā was considered the politically correct thing to say. Wokes just change words arbitrarily
Unless youāre 70, no it wasnāt. And I know youāre not 70.
The word was in my textbooks and I am far less than 70.
In your opinion do you believe wokeness is from feminization or something else?
Wokeness is a very malleable word, it means very different things in different peopleās hands.
Negro isnāt the most offensive term, itās inoffensive enough that Iām comfortable typing it out publicly as opposed to the other N word, but itāsā¦ archaic. There was a time when it was just the way to refer to black people.
But that time has passed, for some reason or another. There are social linguistic mechanisms by which previously inoffensive words become offensive - thatās quite an interesting little cultural thing that happens, I think. Like the word retard, or spastic.
Youāre not a bad person for using the word ānegroā, but you are a strange person for being unwilling to consider the possibility that language has evolved. Like, instead of getting your panties in a twist about it, you COULD be like āoh, I didnāt realise this word is seen that way now, let me look it upā and then maybe you Google āis negro an offensive term?ā and maybe you learn something. But instead of doing that, youāve become offended in your own right. āIām offended that youāre offended!ā
Just Google it and see what people say. Donāt take it personally. Learn something.
When I Google what I suggested you Google, I find clear strong evidence that it has been seen as an archaic and slightly offensive term for a long time. This article comes up:
So in 2010 it was clearly seen as offensive enough that it deserved a public apology from a government official.
Maybe youāve been living under a rock, which again doesnāt make you a bad person, but now weāre forcefully dragging you out from under that rock. Here is the information youāve been lacking. Learn from it.
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You say language evolved. I say its devolved.
No I donāt take it personally. You are just another one absorbed into American and woke cultural brainwashing.
I donāt even care about that thread being censored anymore, bring in the immigrants I say. Dilute America to the point where the American War Machine can no longer wage war and tyrannize other countries.
That isnāt what I said. I said that itās āan inflammatory way to refer to black people, and would be taken as an insult by most black Americans.ā
I donāt see how you could hold that itās not inflammatory, given the controversies around use of the term that have been provided in this thread (2010 Census and Harry Reidās use in reference to Obama).
That most black Americans would take it as an insult is less clear, and would depend on context.
Still, given that it is inflammatory, and that some not-insubstantial portion of people regard it as a racial slur, it seems reasonable to prohibit its casual use.
What did āwokeā mean when you were in school?
Language changes.
In this case, my guess is that the collision of geographical dialects also plays a role in your frustration. I take you at your word that when and where you grew up, it was not seen as a racial slur, and I did not intend to accuse of you of using it as a racial slur.
For me, Iāve always understood ānegroā to be unacceptable when used in contemporary speech to refer to black people. The fact that it can still be seen in historical usage didnāt detract from that, because thatās true of lots of slurs, and Iāve also always understood the past to be more racist than the present.
That difference of dialect creates problems when the speaker populations collide. Ultimately, either one group stops using a word they consider benign, or the other group stop being offended by a word they consider a racial slur.
In this case, there seems to be a social consensus against using the word, itās fallen out of common speech, and the alternative is not some PC neologism but a synonym you yourself used to talk about the same group of people in the same paragraph, it seems like asking you not to use a word many understand to be a racial slur is the lesser of evils.
Iām not unsympathetic, I donāt like language policing either. But I think it makes sense in this case.
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