Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat
by StrangeATractor on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:03PM
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A slightly different take is that it's easier to police people's language than to try to change the world.
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Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat
by skidd0 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:48PM
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Policing language changes the world and it does so in a double-plus-ungood way.
Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat
by Macha on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:38PM
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This is the same take.
Visibility = Number of people impacted * level of impact
Getting a high level of impact is hard. A company word list stacks the other side of the equation. That visibility gives people a feeling of impact and something to point out, to convince themselves they're doing good in the world, while at the same time they're funding the politician that is gerrymandering to reduce the voting impact of black people, for example.