https://hyperallergic.com/541260/diversity-initiative-canceled
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 8 February 2020 03:49 (four years ago) link
the advertising ploy, which reimagined literary figures from Peter Pan to Frankenstein’s monster as people of color...
Ok, you can just stop right there.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 February 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
You knew it would be involved somehow
Collaborating with the advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day New York on the project, the two companies say they used an artificial intelligence (AI) program to “scour the pages of 100 classic literature books that portrayed white characters on the cover and revealed several books in which the protagonist’s race was never specified, only assumed.”
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z5VprLK.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 February 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
lol, whoops
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/11/you-should-ask-china-trump-terminates-press-conference-after-clash-with-reporter-video
Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don’t ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
How can any of us truly know if the president has racism in his heart?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
did we not update this last month when he accused Yamiche Alcindor of being "threatening"? because he was certainly racist then, as he is all the time, and I haven't even gotten into this new thing yet.
I watch the PBS NewsHour every night, and because it's the most boring, most level-headed news show on TV I rarely ever experience any sort of human emotion while watching it. But the night after that press briefing in the rose garden when he called Yamiche "threatening," when Judy Woodruff told her on-air that she's an excellent journalist and they're all really proud of her, and Yamiche took the compliment like a pro and was all "wow, thank you" and then kept going with her report and not showing signs of being choked up about it until about twenty seconds later when she pretty obviously started processing Judy's pretty sweet public acknowledgement of her professionalism and drive while being insulted by the fucking President, that a did a little thing to me. she's always kinda nervous and awkward in the way that any determined young reporter would/should be and I couldn't fucking believe it when Don went full-on asshole to her.
Yeah, he has racism in his heart. I can honestly say I have no doubt about it whatsoever.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
Christ what a racist asshole
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
he has racism in his heart and in his asshole
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
But has he tested positive for racism? A lot of armchair doctors around here.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
thread of what is racism and is donald trump a racist
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Hmm. Wonder if we can work this one out before we hit 10,000 posts.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
be nice. didn't they tell you do that at the last newspaper you worked at that you don't work at any more probably because they fired you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q7vxFSnILY
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/18/citing-concern-for-indigenous-people-duluth-moving-to-drop-chief-from-city-job-titles/
When asked to explain the misgivings people have regarding the use of the term “chief,” Larson responded: “It is language that is offensive to people who are indigenous and actually offensive to a lot of people, especially when there is other language available.”
― j., Friday, 19 June 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
That’s, uh, well, I guess you have to start somewhere.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
Similarly, we are removing potentially problematic words from our work (software development). So out go whitelist and blacklist.
But i wonder about 'master' when talking about source control. Is that from master/slave or from master as in the master copy of something and is that second related to the first or does it have a different etymology?
― koogs, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
(we're changing it anyway, it's easy enough in github)
― koogs, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
theres lots of problematic shit in computer/electronic lingo. master/slave, male/female to describe inserts/outlets
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 19 June 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
Answering my own question with a single Google search: https://www.etymonline.com/word/master
Same root, Latin magister meaning more than.
― koogs, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
This'll be filler time material for Hannity or Carson, I'm sure.
― Nhex, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
Someone also linked to a Google pdf suggesting dropping phrases like 'sanity check'. I'd just be happy if the one guy in our team would stop calling things retarded.
― koogs, Friday, 19 June 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
when i did tech support i was instructed to call master/slave drives "primary drives" and "secondary drives"
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 19 June 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/K2uFc7Z.jpg
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 19 June 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link
Customer access will function identically as before the changes, but look for the term "Journalytics" in place of "whitelist" and "Predatory Reports" in place of "blacklist."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
journawhatics??
― j., Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
many bellyfeels itt
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/user-928786241/roddy-ricch-the-box-indian-version
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 July 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
A photo-realistic tattoo of a bowl of ramen and a bottle of Sapporo on a white guy—is this racist? My wife says yes, and I disagreed until I realized that my deep love of good ramen might be affecting my judgement
― Dan I., Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
I think getting tattoos of things you love shouldn’t be racist even when appropriation is involved? I’m probably missing something too.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
What if you really love soccer and bottle openers
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
lol
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:47 (three years ago) link
I mean, I've seen so many bad tattoos of Eminem on white shins, I'd really hate to see some of the Tupac ones.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
OK, this one's pretty good.https://i.imgur.com/9J1xtoC.jpg
Not sure if this is really Tupac, but survives the "ITR?" test.https://i.imgur.com/0bHW56v.jpg
All right. Just gonna stop here before I go any deeper.https://i.imgur.com/JJKd90Q.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
first tupac tat kinda looks like a lady til you get to the mustache.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
https://bklyner.com/students-at-brooklyn-middle-school-sent-home-with-insensitive-problem
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
That's not only gross and insensitive but completely misunderstands what the 3/5 compromise was
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
or at least it's worded in a way that could leave you with the impression that black people got *some* representation through it, when in fact all it did was give southern whites disproportionate power, arguably worse for black people than if they had not been "counted" at all.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Question written by a black woman btw
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
it was certainly worse than if they had not been counted. their oppressors were "representing" them.
― treeship., Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
but yeah, not a good math problem.
― treeship., Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
xp hmm -- maybe written with a sense of irony then?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
Exactly. But it's true that this whole thing is often presented as "the racists thought Black people were only worth 3/5 of a white person" when in fact it was the racists who were arguing for pardon-the-expression "equality" here; if each Black person "counts" for representation but isn't allowed to vote, that is a huge boon to the white people "representing" the people they're oppressing
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
The problem was created by a mentor teacher – not affiliated with Achievement First–who modified the original problem about groceries to teach about the history and inhumanity of the three-fifths compromise.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
lmao liberals trying to indoctrinate our children and teach them america is racist, and aren't they the ones telling us we need to "amplify" black voices ? but of course as soon as a black woman tells an uncomfortable truth about a fundamental historical fact (liberals aren't actually interested in history, just anti-white propaganda), it becomes "insensitive" and right on cue, the typical snowflake outrage. really tells you who the real racists are here.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
— tucker carlson, probably
There is literally nothing wrong with this math problem aside from casting it as a hypothetical.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
if this was your first introduction to the 3/5 compromise, then I'd say it is not an ideal vehicle for informing people about that history, but otherwise yeah
― rob, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
the thing is that all math problems are hypothetical. and they are almost always presented as trivial scenarios, precisely because the goal is to isolate a specific mathematical operation without the influence of personal bias or ethics. we hope to teach children to wrap their heads around a given concept before they go on to apply them in e.g. physics, psychology, or moral philosophy.
i think it goes without saying that when we teach kids about the history of slavery in the united states, it absolutely matters how the facts are presented, i.e. what information is emphasized and the broader ethical context that educators use to frame the circumstances and of course to link ugly historical truths to the present. the reason people find this insensitive is that the language of middle school mathematics is inherently incapable of performing these tasks.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
It's a controversial question, certainly. It's also very clear on expressing the mathematical principle meant to be exercised. I do think changing it out of the blue without any context or tie into subject matter from a concurrent history class is weird but I also think the teacher changed it to provoke this exact conversation about the Constitution and how racism was embedded within the founding documentation of this country. I don't think the teacher was trying to put students in their place or hinder their learning and I have zero problem with issues from one academic discipline informing presentation of another, regardless of the age of the student.
I think you can call this clumsy overreach but I don't think there's any reasonable metric by which you can call it racist; was she lying about what was in the Constitution or how slaves were accounted for in calculating population figures for representation.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link