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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by dyauspitr on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:12PM (#48512489)
Opus 4.8 has taken such a beating over the last couple of days since the release of fable, videos online of people referring to it like the “redheaded stepchild” (is there a better way of saying this, this sounds racist) basically at this point, everyone is going to be seriously disappointed to fall back to that.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by nozzlegear on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:38PM (#48512717)
> is there a better way of saying this, this sounds racist

It's not racist or even politically incorrect in the US, it's a common saying.

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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by dyauspitr on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:50PM (#48512829)
Yes, I am aware. Kind of paints redheads as unwanted though. Seems hurtful.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by nozzlegear on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:50AM (#48513322)
Yeah, not sure where the phrase originated but it does sound bad when you put some thought into it. My sister is a redhead and people loved to make fun of her growing up, telling her there's no way two parents with brown hair could have a kid with red hair, so the mailman (who also had red hair) was obviously her dad.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by johndough on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:49AM (#48514588)
As a foreigner, the casual racism against red-haired people in the US and UK always baffled me.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by poszlem on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:47AM (#48515408)
If anything is racist here it's thinking that redheads are a separate race.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by johndough on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:04AM (#48516456)
Feel free to replace "racism" with "discrimination" if you prefer. English is not my first language and the minutiae elude me.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by xienze on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:59AM (#48516413)
As long as the person is white no one will blink an eye no matter what you say.
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by dyauspitr on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:16PM (#48518666)
Except that’s all every MAGA can talk about. This take is from 2010
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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by xienze on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:16AM (#48541648)
And still just as relevant.
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