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I'm not against it if thats how I came off, I apologise if it sounded like that. I'm more against the corporate PR campaigns that drown out real material change
by entropea 6y ago
I'm not against it if thats how I came off, I apologise if it sounded like that. I'm more against the corporate PR campaigns that drown out real material change for black individuals that those like Martin Luther King with the Poor People Campaign fought for. It happens over and over and I'm sick of seeing nothing actually change in society except for 15 minutes of corporate feel good time.
Those ideas, police & prison reform, housing reform, water & infrastructure, education, for black individuals is what I want to see. Systemic change that will actually have a real effect.
I was out for the past 3-4 weeks protesting against police brutality and BLM and it just seems like such a waste when syrup labels and github parent branches are the only change I really see occurring.
- ogre_codes 6y agoIt is a small quality of life improvement for a small number of black people in the programming community. Nothing more, nothing less. This isn't drowning out anything, nor does it alleviate the need for real change in the places where it's needed most. If a company does the right thing for the wrong reasons, that doesn't make it wrong.