Racial Slur Database -

, researchers used RSDB keywords to classify 26 million tweets into racial categories to study public health outcomes and area-level bias.

The database maintains a running list of "emerging slurs"—often portmanteaus or intentionally misspelled versions of existing words designed to evade automated moderation. For instance, when social media platforms banned obvious racial epithets, users switched to "alt spellings" or "euphemisms." The RSDB tracks these mutations in real-time. Racial Slur Database

Ultimately, the RSDB serves as a digital museum of humanity's worst linguistic impulses. Like a museum displaying shackles or gas chambers, the presentation is everything. Currently, the RSDB fails at presentation—it displays the shackles without the explanatory plaque, the gas chambers without the memorial. , researchers used RSDB keywords to classify 26