CGI-Quality said:
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I had a discussion with The Mod Team about this. Many of them feel like the term "autistic screeching", whether a meme or not, is inappropriate. They also feel the word "autistic", as an insult, is just as bad as other words we find inappropriate around here. My personal input? While there are surely words/terms/phrases that can be seen as jokes and what not, people with genuine autism (or with a friend/relative who suffers from it) don't find it funny at all. No different than calling someone a "retard". Because these things have lasting consequences on the sufferer, I get where The Team, and curl, are coming from, though I don't feel quite as strongly about it.
So, here's what I'll do. From this post on, I want genuine responses to this. How do you feel about a Global (Sitewide) restriction on words like these? This is simply to know where many of you stand.
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I don't think the word itself should be outright forbidden, as much like "gay" it has many applications that are perfectly reasonable and civil, such as discussions about people who are genuinely autistic or gay.
Nor do I think using it in a derogatory way should be a "one-hit-kill" and lead to an immediate ban. I feel like it's more one of those things where the person using it as such probably needs a heads up that it's not appropriate first, and that if they then continue to use it in an intentionally malicious way, then further action such as a temp ban may be appropriate.
In my experience, a gentler approach like this is more helpful than zero-tolerance prohibition.
Just my 2 cents.
