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Twitch needs to understand that "inflammatory" is subjective, and this clarification only clarifies that people are able to be targeted on that subjective basis. Saying gay people deserve rights is inflammatory to bigots, and if bigots decide to report a gay person for saying "I am a human being and I deserve rights" without this label then they are accurately reporting someone for "discussing sexuality in a polarizing or inflammatory manner" under these ******** rules.
Like, that's the only thing that this enables. It doesn't prevent hate speech, because 1) people engaging in hateful conduct towards minorities aren't going to voluntarily label themselves with the "Hey, please scrutinize my conduct in the context of sensitive social issues more closely" label, and 2) any hateful speech towards any of these groups that this label would apply to is already prohibited under ToS. If Twitch were trying to restrict hate speech, they would focus on enforcing those rules. This label only puts marginalized people between a rock and a hard place - either you apply the label, opening yourself up to be targeted by bigots who want to try to goad you into saying something "inflammatory" that they can report, or you don't apply the label and risk a bigot deciding to report you for failing to label yourself if you ever so much as make a joke like "So-and-so says gay rights!"
The whole label is stupid. Create a "Politics & Commentary" category if that's something you actually want to keep separate from the general Just Chatting category, but this label does nothing to help good actors on Twitch and has significant potential to hurt them.