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I appreciate your line of thinking. Yes some societies celebrate death and wear bright colours to 'mourn'. And yes, there are benefits associated. As to wheth
by lwhi 3y ago
I appreciate your line of thinking.
Yes some societies celebrate death and wear bright colours to 'mourn'. And yes, there are benefits associated.
As to whether this is more or less of a concern than language usage; I'd argue the biggest problem with society today is absolutism. More than one thing can be—and usually is—true at any one time.
We rarely need to decide one or other .. and using this as a line of argument doesn't amount to much.
I think there's a simple way these language ideas can benefit society. Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness.
- perihelions 3y ago- "Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness." The link you're making here is something I don't understand. If I'm black, and I'm at a funeral and everyone is wearing the color black, am I being disparaged? Or if I'm reading some code and the comment's talking about "blacklists"? Is that subjectively disparaging? Is that something I'd even notice at all, consciously or not? I'm unreasonably confident the answer is a universal "no". For the same reason that as I'm writing this HN comment, at no point has imagery of mothers and fathers crossed my mind—even though the word "parent" is right there in the commenting toolbar*. Is it different for other people? *( parent | context | edit | delete, etc.)
- lwhi 3y agoI don't think wearing black at funeral is signalling anything other than respect?
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