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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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coppice:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 30, 2020, 08:32:41 am ---Almost universal in the tech industry. Have worked with Israelis, Americans, Germans, Ukranians, Indians, Japanese, Belarussians, French and heard it everywhere.

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Universal is an exaggeration, but its very common among the kind of people who like to abbreviate everything.

bd139:
When I'm paying per hour I want them to abbreviate everything  :-DD

magic:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 29, 2020, 08:08:55 pm ---I miss the times when we still had actual journalism, and reporters reported events, instead of spinning narratives and considering themselves to be the Guardians of Information Proper for General Consumption and Responsible for Correct Opinion Shaping.  Oh, the examples I could give from recent events in Finland...

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Make no mistakes, you miss the days when the Whitenormative Patriarchal Social Order enforced a certain degree of cultural and ideological uniformity and one could trust that others feel roughly the same about most important political issues and there was no need to carefully spin everything with considerations to how every damn minority will try to re-spin it for their own agenda.

That's a rather problematic thing to miss, comrade :-DD

maginnovision:
If you look at Zach Goldbergs twitter you'll see some data he's been looking at regarding media/twitter. Here is a sneek peek. Essentially the way the media is fighting the lack of relevance is by writing news with an agenda for a specific audience rather than for america in general. At least that's what I got from it.

themadhippy:
seems the bbc is dammed if they do and dammed if they dont, with another example of people getting upset on behalf of others
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ofcom-280-complaints-bbc-news-131651968.html

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