At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints

Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by tyingq on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:27PM (#14403155)

>the Free Expression tunnel at NC State was spray painted with the confederate battle flag background, his "Hope" pose portrait, and in huge bold black letters the word "NIGGER".

Not to minimize it, but I do wonder how often this sort of thing is elaborate trolling versus racism. Especially on a college campus.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by metaphorm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:38PM (#14403932)

I don't see a difference. racist trolling is a form of racism.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by tyingq on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:33PM (#14404460)

The motivation is (usually) different, so how you might try and stop it would be different as well. And, I'm honestly just curious.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by whitemale on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:20AM (#14408117)

Is making fun of a group of people and having no hatred towards them the same thing as actually hating that group?

If I tell a joke about black/asian/latino/<insert your favourite race or ethnicity here> then I'm automatically racist, then I'm exactly the same thing as the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church?

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by metaphorm on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:18PM (#14411664)

trolling and joking aren't the same thing. a joke is intended as humor and the audience understands it as such (even if they might not consider it funny). trolling is intended to cause offense and distress. even if a racist troll does not authentically hold racist beliefs, they are displaying a level of insensitivity in communication that is identical with racist speech.

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