Some of these words can also have other meanings. For example "fag" is english slang for cigarette and "chink" obviously has other meanings. I also know gay people who prefer the term 'queer' in describing themselves. I guess you could get a lot of "nigger" too by retweeting hip hop lyrics..
Because algorithmic sentiment analysis would automatically classify any tweet containing 'hate words' as "negative," this project relied upon the HSU students to read the entirety of tweet and classify it as positive, neutral or negative based on a predefined rubric. Only those tweets that were identified by human readers as negative were used in this analysis.
