I'd like to respectfully withdraw my participation from HSO on account of the way languages have been dealt with. That originally the inclusion of a language to specifically a trigger list was not at least examined as being discriminatory before being added, to me shows a lack of thought from the moderators, and I'm not confident in the mod team's ability to handle similar issues in the future, should they arise.

Even to me, someone entirely English-speaking in an officially bilingual country, this is really quite obvious from the get-go. It's nice that it's now been called an accessibility issue (as it is) but the fact that it had to be mentioned multiple times from outside the mod team that labeling "other languages" as triggering is extremely ethnocentric... come on guys. One person's trigger does not make linguistic prejudice okay, it's potentially a very short hop from that to other more widespread -ist issues, if you catch my drift.

I'm just one person in a very very large event, but personally I feel withdrawing myself is the right thing to do.

I apologize to my team.