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Normally I'd call reductio ad absurdum but we're pretty much already there. This idea that dark is negative is kind of silly. Things that are done in the shado
by scrollaway 6y ago
Normally I'd call reductio ad absurdum but we're pretty much already there.
This idea that dark is negative is kind of silly. Things that are done in the shadows tend to be referred to as black, such as a black market. You want to call it a shadow market? (And don't get me wrong that sounds cool as hell, but also, wtf)
Look at the positives instead, unless the color is the problem in which case your accountants I'm sure will be overjoyed to hear that they should no longer say the company is "in the black" either.
I don't mean this to sound combative but rather simply make you think about what it is that time is being spent on.
Remember that whenever this particular change is brought up, whenever people talk about it, all the energy being expended on it etc. It all draws away from much more important business such as the George Floyd protests.
Black lives matter. This doesn't.
- hrktb 6y agoWe have a ton of these connotations: - left/sinister is negative compared to right - low is negative compared to high (“moral highground”) - south is negative compared to north (“things going south lately”) Regardless of neutral usages of these words, or their factual meaning, we should acknowledge the more connotated meaning are not completely separate, and bleed on the other uses of the words. It doesn’t mean they can’t be used with their actual meaning, but I think we should be open to the risk we’d need to stop using them in context where the connotations bleed too strong. And I guess we reached that point for white/black/dark.