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 **Our community prioritizes marginalized people's safe existence in the community. We will not tolerate posts encouraging:**
 
 * Insensitivity toward boundary statements, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you"
-* Racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behaviors or assumptions (although these discussions may be moved to [HH Constructive Debates](http://hh.gd/debate) if they better fit its guidelines)
+* Racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise prejudiced and/or discriminatory behaviors or assumptions (although these discussions may be moved to [HH Constructive Debates](http://hh.gd/debate) if they better fit its guidelines)
 
 However, if you have a post that falls in the above categories yet you feel still belongs in HH, you can message a [moderator](#moderators) to discuss it. We've had posts like these in the past that turned into constructive discussions with a bit of reframing. Talking about hard problems is, itself, hard.