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

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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