Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf
X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch, have been racially abused.
In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British Future reported 30 posts from this year in which the Conservative party leader was called the N-word. In each case the researchers used the platform’s “hate, abuse or harassment” reporting option. X refused to act in the majority of cases, despite repeated requests.
The Guardian understands X routinely takes action only when posts are reported to it as illegal under the UK’s Online Safety Act. In those cases, it restricts visibility in the UK, leaving the post unrestricted in other jurisdictions.
I have no idea what the “P-word” would be.
Wikipedia says it’s a derogatory term used for Pakistani people.
I’d generalize it to South Asian brown people in general as racists aren’t exactly geography experts
Sounds like something a p-word would say
Prick?
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Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf was told in one tweet, which used the P-word, to “sod off” to Pakistan.
Pussy? P-eter? P-o-ta-to? P-ot-a-soup? P-at-a-ba-da…ding-dong? I have literally no idea. People are saying it’s a slur and I’m glad I don’t know. If you respond to this with what it is, I’m blocking you, I really don’t want to know or propagate more slurs and racism in this world. Eradicate all Nazi scum.
it’s also kinda childish. the word is called “Nigga”. just don’t use it and get over it
Uh oh guys, we’ve got an edgelord on Lemmy!
I know what they’re referring to by N-word, but wtf is the P-word? I skimmed the article and still couldn’t figure it out.
Phaggot? Pee Pee Poo Poo? Pheasant?
pee pee poo poo
I’m suddenly back in kindergarten and smirking
Portulaca.
Persimmon
Patronam
Oh shit! They’re talking about plenury indulgences!
It’s Paki, a racial slur for South Asian people common in the UK.
Thank you. I’ve seen this used before but never referred to in the same connotations as the N-word. Is it common for it to be treated as harshly as the former over there? I’m not aware of it being as severe in the US, but we don’t have the same proportions.
Not quite as severe, but same ballpark.
Paki
P word? Wtf.
I’m pretty sure it is the shortened slur for Pakistanis that gets used for any person who looks vaguely like they might be from that region, including Indians (who mostly don’t enjoy being confused with their regional neighbors/hated enemies).
To be fair, if they banned the bots and the Nazis, they wouldn’t have any traffic at all.
Sorta like how reddit protects pedos and abusers. Fucking disgusting sites.
The Epstein Class has class solidarity.
Edit: They will do everything they can protect each other. Twitter allows racist shit to keep working class people fighting. Reddit protects the child abusers of the Epstein Class.
I agree completely. Anything to divide the poors and make them hate eachother. Its so fucking easy too. Easy to get pissed when youve worked your ass off and the fruits get fucked with. Easy to be happy and work together when youre so rich the fruits dont matter.
The ‘p’ word is a shortening of the word ‘Pakistani’ to the first four letters and is very much used abusively. When people came to the UK from Asia - India, Bangladesh and Pakistan mostly - starting in the 1950/60’s, the usual assortment of racist/fascist scum, being both hateful cunts and also deeply stupid, assumed anyone who looked Asian was Pakistani and so the p-word became a term of racial abuse for literally anyone who might appear to be from that part of Asia or have that heritage.
Wait, the site owned by a sieg-heiling Nazi allows racist posts?
To be fair, if they banned all the bots, they’d have no traffic at all.
First thought was p-word could be “pajeet”, but comments below say it is likely “paki”. Can someone from UK clarify?
I was thinking peckerwood. It’s in line with the n word.
It’s only acceptable to shorten names of wealthy, white nationalities like Brits, Aussies and Swedes.
Pakistan and Nigeria don’t want an invitation to this club.
You appear to be either genuinely thick or willfully disenguous. Let me spell it out for you. I’ve been called a Brit many times, but unlike when I’ve been called a paki it’s not usually associated withh a threat of violence, spitting or similar behaviour. Perhaps it might be in some places in the world. But not in most the UK. Bar perhaps slivers of Northern Ireland.
The form “X-slur” is much better than “X-word”.
