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Some of them don't load, but some do. The titles in the list do not always quite match what the actual linked article says, in the ones that I have looked at.
by zzo38computer 3y ago
Some of them don't load, but some do. The titles in the list do not always quite match what the actual linked article says, in the ones that I have looked at.
The list says "knives and forks are racist", but what the linked article from there claims is that insistence to use knife/forks is racist, not the knife/forks themself. I am not sure that it is really "racist", but still I think that you can eat by hand, or using knife, fork, spoon, etc, if you do not spill it so much. (I prefer to use a spoon when I have rice to eat, although some people prefer fork or chopsticks. And, some times you might find work better by hand or by spoon or whatever, I think.)
The list says that a solar eclipse is racist. The linked article describes actual racism in the U.S. history (when black people did not have much freedom), and describes where the solar eclipse is visible, but that does not make a solar eclipse to be racist.
The link labeled "inclusive language is racist" is a description of a anti-litter campaign which puts people's names on, allegedly selected at random. I do not think that it is racist, although I can understand how they might perceive it as such (with a seemingly valid reason). However, whether it is racist or not, I think that they shouldn't put the people's names like that since the people could be any people and could ave any name, and some of the people don't have the trash to throw out and some do, regardless of what their name is.
They say making drugs illegal is racist. I do not think so, although the enforcement described there is racist. This is a problem with the police (which has many other problems too, many of which are something other than racism), and is independent of what the laws of drugs should be (my opinion is that they should be illegal to use in ways which make pollution, and only enforced if it causes that problem e.g. smells or polution nearby; you might argue differently, but that does not make it racist).
They say words are racist. Some words may have racist origins, but will have legitimate meanings. Some may be false etymologies. If a word is suitable then you can use it. However, I do agree to avoid using words that are incorrect or unclear in that context. The words listed in the picture above the caption "Some of the words that student’s shouldn’t be using at Brandies." have legitimate uses but a few of them are sometimes used incorrectly. This does not mean that no words should ever be used at all.
They say maps are racist. Well, they will have to make some decisions about it, such as map projection, direction, zero longitude, etc. Different projections might be good for different purposes, and the other stuff I mentioned is conventions which are just common now but it is necessary to have them and is not really truly neutral. However, they work OK.
> "There is racism against all groups, but if you are white and living in a western society, no one cares that you are discriminated against."
Yes, it does seem to be. There is racism against all groups and that does seem to commonly happen like that (although not always). However, not everything is "racism"; some things are bad for other reasons.