Add support for dictionary-like conditions

[wooorm]

Subject of the issue

retext-equality and retext-profanities messages are pretty polarising, and expect the worst of the writer. We should add something of a conditional in messages.

Steps to reproduce

For example:

The girl had black hair, black nail polish, and black skin.

Expected behaviour

It could yield:

1:5-1:9 Be careful with girl, when referring to a person, it’s profane in some cases
1:5-1:9 `girl` may be insensitive, when referring to a person, use `kid`, `child` instead
1:14-1:19 Reconsider using black, to refer to an individual or a skin tone, it may be profane
...

Actual behaviour

Yields:

1:5-1:9 Be careful with girl, it’s profane in some cases
1:5-1:9 `girl` may be insensitive, use `kid`, `child` instead
1:14-1:19 Reconsider using black, it may be profane
...

Proposed solution

In retext-equality, wou could add a condition field next to considerate and inconsiderate.
Along the lines of condition: to refer to an individual or a skin tone.
And pick that up in the messaging.

Supersedes GH-196.

[wooorm]

Also related to GH-72.

[wooorm]

Note also that this is a pretty big issue, it’ll require many conditions to the original files!

[jonyeezs]

Is there a way we could split this issues into multiples TODOs that can be tackled individually?

[wooorm]

@jonyeezs Hmm, it can be split up by first doing one initial condition, and writing the code for that, and then slowly porting the rest of retext-equality over? 🤔

[wooorm]

Would you like prefer issues for that?

[jonyeezs]

yeah slowly porting over seems less overwhelming.

I guess i may have posted a silly statement. As someone new to this project, I'm not sure what I'm dealing with.

But I love the mission of what alex is and would love to contribute.

Side-note: This is inspiring me to create a chrome extension! But that would be for another future date XD

[wooorm]

@jonyeezs Oh don’t worry about it, it’s not silly at all :) I’m sure other people have the same question, thanks for asking it.

yeah slowly porting over seems less overwhelming.

would you be able and are you interested to work on the first condition and the initial code?

Side-note: This is inspiring me to create a chrome extension! But that would be for another future date XD

Please do! It’s also not easy, probably hard, though. Some people have tried but never finished it!

And thanks for your lovely comments about alex, I appreciate it 🤗

[brycekahle]

@wooorm I made an attempt on the code side of things in retext-equality. See retextjs/retext-equality#55

[Murderlon]

Resolved in retextjs/retext-equality#55