Racial slur widely used in gallery

I'm happy to hear this is taken forward! 

Thank you, @EA_Cade and happy holidays!

The term "traveller" is sometimes used in the kind of context you give, and in a larger demographic than strictly Romani people, for example certain Irish groups, but this one is not quite stigma-free in other contexts either. 

"Traveling performers" and/or "nomadic lifestyle" would probably be a fair description. Also, obviously, if someone, say, recreates or is inspired by say, an actual historical Roma caravan -style trailer and creates a Sims version, calling it that and telling where the inspiration comes from is not racist.

I'm lucky to have benefited from diversity training in a former regional government post. I was trained never ever to use this word so that we could fairly and respectfully engage with the community. Let's hope the more people we tell, the more the message spreads not to use the G word.

I saw a comment on another feed that the Sims is being too political by working towards full inclusivity and that disappointed me. Being inclusive isn't being political, it's just being inclusive. There are enough games that stereotype. What I love about The Sims is that we can create the diverse world we'd like to see in the real world.

Two months later, after the game received a gallery update, this issue is still as prevalent as it was when first reported.

Considering how long this thread has been open, this may not be the correct place for this but I wanted to bring awareness to the situation.

I genuinely appreciate how open and inclusive The Sims 4 is, and the incredible creativity shown in the gallery. I obviously don't want that to change.

I'm honestly not sure how EA/Maxis handles complaints about gallery content, but it appears that you have some banned words and the option to report content, but that reporting content does little if anything. In other words, I'm reasonably certain that you don't have human moderators looking for offensive content, although I would hope that a human being looked at items that were flagged. 

That said... I would suggest that you get one of your Jewish employees to search the term "Jewish" in the gallery and sort by number of downloads. Depressingly, there's an antisemitic stereotype couple with over 1200 downloads and comments like "lmao sieg heil." This is, shall we say, not welcoming to Jewish Simmers who would like to represent themselves in the game. This item has apparently been in the gallery for many years and many people commented to say that they were reporting it, and yet it remains.

If you don't understand why the item in question is an antisemitic stereotype, here's a link. TL;DR: The rich greedy Jew is a stereotype rising out of historical antisemitic oppression in which Jews were denied entry into most professions, but were allowed to lend money because money lending was a sin in Christianity (usury has since been redefined  from "lending money with an interest rate at all" to mean "charging excessive interest") and therefore banking was a profession forbidden to Christians. This stereotype is harmful because it encourages hatred and dehumanizes Jews into malevolent stereotypes.

Let's assume that you don't want to "squash the creativity" of the creator, and that's why the item has been in the gallery for years. Can you at least consider removing the item because it's a magnet for offensive comments and hate speech?

Thank you very much for reading this far, and please consider evaluating whether or not your gallery flagging system is effective.

Bump.

Yes, I know thread bumping is frowned upon, but I also think this is an important issue.

As near as I can tell, what the flagging system does is....  hides the item from YOU.

Yeah there are a few racist terms I wish were banned from Gallery too. I am tri-raced myself and my empathy goes out to Jews since my minor Christian religion has a history of oppression too, so I am all for having options and honestly a better way to report and flag offensive posts too. One of my friends has been trying to get Jewish foods into the game too and making some amazing foods to show the Gurus. I think whole Gallery needs a much needed upgrade anyway, so better filtering system would be nice to find different cultures in the Gallery too. I don't like the algorithm it is currently using likes and number of downloads because there are so many amazing content creators that don't get featured as much.

@Scobren  Yeah, the gallery has banned the name of a Jewish holiday, so the creator of an item for that holiday can’t label her creation with the proper name (It’s a Sukkah, the little hut you have dinner in during Sukkot). Okay, sure? I guess I can see what word you think the creator is trying to say, fine, but then to turn around and ignore years of complaints on an actually offensive item? 

I know the issue isn’t limited to antisemitism; there was a thread here about Romani people recently as well. ☹️ But the new wedding pack sent me to the gallery looking for Jewish wedding venues, and that was a nasty surprise. 

(And I would love more Jewish foods in the game!) 

[Editing to avoid the dreaded thread bump 😉 for a vaguely relevent joke... I just saw someone else in the gallery talk about the Sukkah she'd put in her Synagogue build by referring to it as "my contribution for Jewish shake-a-lemon week." ROTFL!!!]