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Sunday, June 13th, 2021 7:25 AM

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Racist keywords - Help needed from IMDb staff

Dear IMDb staff: your help is needed to permanently ban several racist keywords that are racist against Asian people.

These keywords are mostly the work of a single troll. When the keywords are deleted, the troll typically adds them right back. 

almond-eyes 
almond-shaped-eyes 
asiatic 
chinaman
chinawoman
oriental-woman (should be merged into asian-woman)

slit-eye

The keywords need to be permanently banned. Thank you in advance for resolving this.

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Michelle

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3 years ago

Hi keyword_expert -

Thanks for your report, I have now removed the applicable inappropriate keywords from the site ("chinaman"/"chinawoman"/"slit-eye") and have merged "oriental-woman" into "asian-woman", as suggested, and merged "asiatic" into "asian".

I have also blocked these racial terms to be re-listed on the site.

Cheers!

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bradley_kent

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3 years ago

It is long past time for IMDb to take some action on this problem.  Where is your common sense?

If "almond-eyes" and "almond-shaped-eyes" are acceptable keywords, what is next?  "kinky-hair" for some Black people, "broad-nose" and "big-lips" for some Back and Aboriginal people, "straight-pubic-hair" or "uncurly-pubic-hair" for some Asian people, "susceptible to-freckles" for some redheaded people, "susceptible-to-sunburn" for some Scandinavians and Caucasian Australians, etc.  

This has become totally absurd. Are we entering a new era of eugenics, which had proven to be both unscientific and racially biased?  I thought this nonsense ended with the nazis.

And, as to the blatantly sexist keywords...  How many refer to their grandmother, mother, wife, daughter or female friend as a "skank," "slut," "easy-woman," "loose-woman, "doable," "chick"-- with "creamy-legs," "velvety-thighs," "legs-to-die-for," "god's-gift-to-man," "boobs" -- and the list goes on-and-on.

C'mon, wake up to the 21st century.

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keyword_expert

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@bradley_kent

It has been quite a while since we have heard from @Michelle in this thread.

In your experience, will IMDb staff even see this thread now that they have marked it as solved? I have tagged @Michelle several times but that has not prompted any response from her yet.

3 years ago

jeorj_euler

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Hold the phone! Eugenics is neither necessarily unscientific nor necessarily racially-biased. Why even bring it up?

— Jeorj Euler, an IMDb regular registrant

3 years ago

adrian

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Eugenics is pseudoscience and heavily racially biased. It has been used for ethnic cleansing and was the basis of the Holocaust. You may want to rethink trying to defend it as science-based and racially-neutral.  

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jeorj_euler

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I've nothing to rethink that I haven't already. Eugenics is a process of selective breeding applied to homo sapiens sapiens. That's neither science nor pseudoscience. Eugenics is not a belief system, as disingenuous propagandists would make it out to be. The question of how to implement it efficiently is a question of science and ethics, with the matters of taste invariably factoring into it. I'm aware of pseudoscientific basis of some of Josef Mengele's numerous curiosities. That is of absolutely no concern to me as of this time.

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3 years ago

bradley_kent

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The continual adding and deleting, adding and deleting of racist keywords has reached the point of absurdity.  The IMDb staff must act.

3 years ago

bradley_kent

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You should try mixing apple juice and orange juice together.  It's very tasty!  Binary thinking -- either/or, this/that, male/female --  is over simplistic and very limiting.  Open up to the world.  There are all kinds of realities.

3 years ago

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Michelle

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3 years ago

Hi All -

Apologies for the delayed response.  I can confirm that the keywords "almond-eyes" and "almond-shaped-eyes" are offending terms and these Keywords have now been removed from the site.

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bradley_kent

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@Michelle Thank you so much.  You have renewed my faith in IMDb.

3 years ago

keyword_expert

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Thank you, @Michelle.

These abusive/trolling keywords should be removed from the site as well:

asiatic-woman (should be merged into asian-woman)

china-woman 
chubster 
thunder-thighs 

All four of those keywords serve no good purpose, and are only being used for trolling and abuse.

3 years ago

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