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I'm so confused.
Is this article saying that 'knee grow' was already in circulation as a circumvention technique before these pants came out?
It makes sense when you realize people are idiots
That's what the guy flagging it up says and it makes sense - the racists will try all sorts of things to get around the filters.
I'm still not sure.
The quote is "Hi @sainsburys @Argos_Online know you're the same company, are you aware that the item name below is freely used by racists to by pass n-word filters?"
Is it possible to tell from context whether the item name was adopted by racists after first seeing it, or whether that part of the item name was already in use? Because the wording itself doesn't specify, it just states that it is used by racists.
Because if it was already in use, then yeah they could have caught that by having some knowledgeable staff.
I don't know how long the trousers have been on sale but assuming this got flagged up quickly (the product makes sense as part of a "back to school" range that tends to launch round about the time everyone breaks up for summer) but the use of "knee grow" online dates back years.