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They could just be lazy/uncaring/incompetent. At least as many of them as racists.
by danmur 5y ago
They could just be lazy/uncaring/incompetent. At least as many of them as racists.
- episode0x01 5y agoI don't think the author was implying active hostility on the part of the EE programmers. > It's the banality of bigotry which gets to me. Usual. Normal. Standard. They’re just dull ways for dull people with limited imaginations to dehumanise other people. The people who designed this form probably didn’t think of themselves as racist. They just designed, built, or perpetuated a system which was exclusionary. Laziness, carelessness, incompetence lead to poorly designed systems, including systems which exclude groups of people.
- D13Fd 5y agoBigotry means intent. I think the author was just misusing that word.