Hate speech defined as a direct attack against people on the basis of what is called protected attributes such as:
- Age
- Caste
- Disability, Illnesses & Veteran Status
- Ethnicity, Race & Nationality
- Religion
- Gender Identity & Expression
- Immigration Status
- Sex & Sexual Orientation
- Victims of a violent major event and their kin.
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Do not post content on SurgBuddy if it fits any of the descriptions below.
- Violent speech or support in written or visual form.
- Dehumanizing speech or imagery in the form of comparisons, generalizations, or unqualified behavioral statements to or about:
- Insects.
- Animals that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior.
- Filth, bacteria, disease, and faeces.
- Sexual predator.
- Subhumanity.
- Violent and sexual criminals and other criminals including but not limited to ‘’thieves’’, ‘’bank robbers’’, or saying ‘’All (people with protected attributes) are criminals’’.
- Statements denying existence of protected groups or characteristic attributes.
- Mocking the concept, events, or victims of hate crimes, even if no real person depicted in an image.
- Designated dehumanizing comparisons, generalizations or behavioral statements that include:
- Black people and farm equipment.
- Black people and apes or ape-like creatures.
- Caricatures of Black people in the form of blackface.
- Jewish people and rats.
- Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy, or the government.
- Denying or distorting information about the Holocaust.
- Muslim people and pigs.
- Muslim person and sexual relations with goats or pigs.
- Women as household objects or referring to women as property or ‘’objects’’.
- Transgender or non-binary people referred to as ‘’it’’.
- Dalits, scheduled caste or ‘’lower caste’’ people as menial laborers.
- Generalizations that state inferiority both in written and visual form in the following ways:
- Physical deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Personal hygiene including but not limited to filthy, dirty, smelly.
- Physical appearance including but not limited to ugly, hideous.
- Mental deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Intellectual capacity including but not limited to dumb, stupid, idiot.
- Education including but not limited to illiterate, uneducated.
- Moral deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Character traits culturally perceived as negative including but not limited to coward, liar, arrogant, ignorant.
- Derogatory terms related to sexual activity including but not limited to whore, slut, perverts.
- Other statements of inferiority which we define as:
- Expressions that devalue people including but not limited to worthless, useless.
- Expressions that show superiority or inferiority from another protected characteristic including but not limited to ‘’males are more superior than females’’.
- Expressions that negatively portray people’s unusualness including but not limited to freaks, abnormal.
- Expressions of contempt which we define as:
- Self-admission to intolerance on the basis of protected attributes including but not limited to homophobic, Islamophobic, racist.
- Expressions that a protected attribute should not exist.
- Expressions of hate including but not limited to despise, hate.
- Expressions of dismissal including but not limited to do not respect, do not like, or do not care for.
- Expressions of disgust which we define as:
- Expressions suggesting that the target causes sickness including but not limited to vomit, throw up.
- Expressions of repulsion or distaste including but not limited to vile, disgusting, yuck.
- Cursing, except certain gender-based cursing in a romantic break-up context, defined as:
- Referring to the target as genitalia or anus including but not limited to cunt, dick, asshole.
- Profane terms or phrases with the intent to insult including but not limited to bitch, motherfucker.
- Terms or phrases calling for engagement in sexual activity or contact with genitalia, anus, faeces or urine including but not limited to suck my dick, kiss my ass, eat shit.
- Others:
- Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting segregation.
- Exclusion in the form of calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting, defined as:
- Explicit exclusion, which means actions such as expelling certain groups or saying that they are not allowed.
- Political exclusion, which means denying the right to political participation of others.
- Economic exclusion, which means denying access to economic entitlements and limiting participation in the labor market.
- Social exclusion, which means things such as denying access to spaces and social services except for gender-based exclusion in health and positive support groups.
- Content that negatively describes or targets people with slurs for the protected attributes.
- Content explicitly providing or offering to provide products or services to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Content attacking concepts, institutions, ideas, practices, or beliefs associated with protected attributes.
- Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected attributes with claims that they have or spread the novel coronavirus, are responsible for the existence of it, are deliberately spreading the novel coronavirus or mocking them for having or experiencing it.
Hate speech is one of the red lines of SurgBuddy and cannot be tolerated. It is crucial for us to respect every people and we expect our community to do the same. Please note that these are just some examples, and do not post content if you think it might violate this policy. If you’ve come across contents include one or more of the above, please report it immediately.
