Also if I'm the dev on this project and I've been told to do this, this is exactly how to implement it. Malicious compliance baybeee

I hope you successfully avoid everyone with tattoos forever, but it's not because they're the "unsavory" ones here

I don't think it's tangentially related? You have effectively contrasted the Right Thing To Do comment with your experience of the Wrong Thing To Do as well as its terrible, lifelong impact.

I too had that flavor of (let's say unkind) upbringing and now I devote every waking moment to tearing that garbage out of me and installing something more like what u/moakley described

Dihydrotestosterone Georg