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Is Urban Dictionary ‘Really, Really Racist’ And ‘Insanely Sexist’?

WORDS Posted: July 6, 2017 7:35 am

“Started in 1999 by then-computer science student Aaron Peckham, the crowd-sourced online dictionary that The New York Times calls the ‘lexicon of instant argot’ has grown over the past two decades into an internet behemoth.” Problem is, the definitions are submitted by ordinary users. In other words, as Clio Chang argues, “it is a pure product of the internet hordes” – and the hordes have contributed some very ugly stuff to the site, stuff that Peckham seems uninterested in policing.

WORDS Published: 07.05.17

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 07.05.17

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