I think “r-word” is a function of stupid text analysis that scans for offensive words. So the fear is that, at some point in the near future, I’ll end up on som

I think “r-word” is a function of stupid text analysis that scans for offensive words. So the fear is that, at some point in the near future, I’ll end up on some stupid regex/nlp-generated list of bigots because it has 100,000 names of people who match the query. Then people freak out and say the equivalent of “look 95,000 people are terrible and the algorithm can’t be wrong” etc etc. This is the equivalent of juries and police trusting bad facial recognition code and making my life miserable. While it’s certainly lazy, it’s the path of least resistance to avoid the word. I believe that there are way more knee jerk, judging idiots than there are people who can code high positive predictive value bigot scanners.