Why Urban Dictionary Is Horrifically Racist

It is terrifying to think that a whole generation of young men is reinforcing the idea that it is OK to call Serena Williams an “ape” or to define Rihanna as “Chris Brown’s punching bag.”

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.But the crowd-sourced repository of internet slang is rife with racist and sexist content and owner Aaron Peckham doesn't seem to care. 



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