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TIFU by trying to help with language

As is tradition, this TIFU didn’t happen today, it happened approximately three and a half days ago. What’s more, it happened on this very sub!

A different OP had put up a TIFU story on how he had ignorantly been using a racist term. They had explained how they had heard this term used when by their family when they were kids, and thought that the term meant wrinkled, when the reality is it was a derogatory name for Asian people.

Throughout the thread, various people tried to guess what the word was with varying success, and there were some people, who didn’t have English as their first language, who really had no idea what the word was, so I decided to help out. . I’m a firm believer that racism stems from ignorance, and education is the cure to ignorance. Now, this particular word also has a legitimate, non-racist meaning and use, so I proceeded to state the word, described how it can be used as a non-racist word and a racist word, and gave examples of each usage in the form of a common sentence in quotation marks.

Now, for reasons unknown, somebody didn’t like that, and the comment got removed. Fair enough, if I was actually saying some racist stuff and trying to insult people, but that’s not what I was doing at all. The context of the comment was nothing of a sort. The examples I gave were sentences you would commonly hear for each usage of the word. So I sent a polite message to the moderators asking what the problem was, and if it could be reinstated, obviously thinking it had tripped an automod rule.

Well, no, about six hours later, I got a message from Reddit itself saying that my account had been suspended for three days for breaking the rules, and as a reason, they used my comment as a reference. So I sent off an appeal to the admins asking what rule I broke, especially due to the educational context of the comment, and of course, probably like most others, it was summarily ignored.

TL;DR: Tried to help out a fellow human with a word that can be normal or racist, got suspended from reddit for 3 days

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