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A "functional NOOP" for people with a particular privilege. Rosa Parks would have risked much less and still have gotten home if she'd given up her bus seat. W
by bigiain 8y ago
A "functional NOOP" for people with a particular privilege.
Rosa Parks would have risked much less and still have gotten home if she'd given up her bus seat. Would that have been a "functional NOOP" too?
(Edit: In rereading this I can see it might be taken as accusative or aggressive. It's not intended in that way, and certainly not intended to accuse you personally of overprivilege or racism...)
- malvosenior 8y agoI didn't take it as a personal attack (and didn't downvote you) but I don't agree. There was an actual rule in place that Rosa Parks had to stand up against, not just terminology she was uncomfortable with. I think it's not safe to assume people who are from minority groups or people from underprivileged backgrounds have a problem with this (source, myself). When you experience actual racism, something like this looks pretty silly. I'm in agreement with antirez. I wouldn't use these terms in a new project, but their use for the past half a century should be pretty uncontroversial and definitely not cause for mass mobbing/shaming...