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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by slibhb on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:27PM (#27384555)
> Those categories are still be a useful heuristic for trying to find people who are more likely to share certain attributes or who have had certain life experiences.

In other words, prejudice is a "useful heuristic".

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by danShumway on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:03PM (#27386562)
> In other words, prejudice is a "useful heuristic".

If you don't see any difference at all between community and othering, or if you think we need a single universal metric that defines whether categories are being used for evil in every single scenario, then I don't think you understood what I was saying about fuzziness.

Categories are a neutral tool, it's how they're used and the effects of their usage that determines whether or not an action involving them is problematic -- just like every single other tool in existence.

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