alt Hacker NewsWhy would “trump” be considered an offensive term? My understanding of the database is to prevent you from accidentally typing offensive or words being autocorrected to something offensive. Like if I misspell “helper” I don’t want that to be autocorrected to “hitler”.
It’s surprising to me that “trump” would get the same classification. Given that he’s the current president of the US, I’m sure people intentionally type his name all the time. I don’t want my keyboard to steer me away from writing out “trump”. And typos autocorrecting to Trump don’t seem like a big deal either. Would anyone be offended by the text “don’t forget to bring your Trump to band practice”?
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just read the article and trump (unless its the word for fart as in the uk) is marked as sensitive.
Here in the UK it means fart
Trump is marked as sensitive, not offensive; along with words like "God", "Jews", and "gun"
> Would anyone be offended by the text “don’t forget to bring your Trump to band practice”?
Trump could be offended. It is obviously there to avoid offending Trump.
And it is not considered "offensive" but "sensitive".
A reasonable explanation is proposed in the article
They're really passionate about Euchre (in a negative way) over in Cupertino