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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by steveeq1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:51PM (#14647018)
> I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal collapse as we would realize that most of our social norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize are actually quite common.

Like racism?

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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by CaptSpify on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:31PM (#14647399)
Sure. I would guess that racism is indeed probably more common than most people realize. But don't get me wrong: Just because something is common, doesn't mean we should move to just accepting it. I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.

I was thinking of things more like: functional drug users, sexual-practices, etc.

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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by steveeq1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:38PM (#14648013)
> I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.

One can make the same argument about height-ism, ugly-ism, or money-ism.

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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by zo1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:18PM (#14650456)
No, we only want to include the discrimination that we don't like. Attractive, tall and rich people are not a protected class of citizens!
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