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by hehetrthrthrjn 1713 days ago
Even if it's archaic it's still offensive and people will use it to abuse. The problem is that YT isn't able to determine context, which is surely a much harder problem than word match. I imagine.

YT does any number of things in multiple languages. Offensive words in Burmese or any other language can easily be implemented with just a word list, which shouldn't be that hard to derive, for example you could scan a dictionary that uses the 'offensive' tag on words like English dictionaries do.