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Mass hysteria - everyone needs to take a 7 day holiday from the news media and the internet.
by forgingahead 6y ago
Mass hysteria - everyone needs to take a 7 day holiday from the news media and the internet.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoSoftware Justice Warriors More seriously, I’m not convinced any of this is going to help. Perhaps we can have sanity prejudice through.
- xellisx 6y agoDoes it hurt anything, besides the feelings of people hell ben on using names for things that really don't reflect core concepts of how things work or what they are used for?
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI think I side with Slavoj Žižek here. When I become dictator and send you to Gulag you can have two servings per day of rotten fish-head soup, because I like you!. And I promise not to call you names. -------------- It's a massive distraction. GitHub, and / or whatever other organisation, deplatforming words will have approximately zero effect. I'm willing to conjecture that while we are busy patting ourselves on the back for reducing the use of word combinations like master / slave another death in custody will occur. And in that way it's a distraction while the harm continues. It's a distraction while the powerful continue to not immediately retrain the police en masse to not deal with everything by a progression of escalating violence.