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Re:The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google by iak8god on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:49PM (#16243864)
> Hope the explanation helps.

Absolutely.

> We can either adopt a norm of honoring what the writer intended or a norm of honoring what the reader observed. I think a lot of people who are most vocally pro-diversity use the later norm when determining if something is or isn't ????ist. If this is the norm I think it should be universally the norm.

Gods, I hope this does not become the norm. "Everything can mean anything!"

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Re:The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google by Veelox on Friday January 26, 2018 @07:29PM (#16244061)
>Gods, I hope this does not become the norm. "Everything can mean anything!"

As a conservative it kind of feels like that is the case. The second named party in the Google suit got fired for an interpretation of his comments he didn't mean.

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