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Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
Read 1984, if you haven't already.
This is exactly what The Party does through simplifying the Newspeak dictionary - targeting words to remove from the lexicon to make even communicating against The Party's narrative impossible.
DEI is being Unpersoned
This is why it's essential, now more than ever, to keep these words and notions alive, let the truth be an act of rebellion in itself.
Life is meaningless without diversity, and it is up to each and every one of us to protect it.
They usually don't care, they just claim some imaginary East-Asian country banned any kind of self-expression to the point all people are wearing the same clothes, which made crime disappear over night or some similar bullshit. They want to claim humans are not different by nature.
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Someone smart tell me how to take advantage of this to make the IRS forget I exist.
change your name to Diversity E. Inclusion
*how to make IRS forgetn't to tax the rich
Don't worry, they're working on the IRS too. I saw an anecdote where the Elongated Muskrat said he deleted E-file.
Apparently the new slogan is "Vox Populi No DEI".
The content filtering approach to government, or, if you will, a filterocracy.
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for f in $(find .); do sed -i 's/wokeness//g' $f; done
find -exec my dude
This level of pettiness could be amusing if it wasn't in control of the world's largest army and nuclear arsenal.
Edit: and not actively trying to murder people, now that I think about it.
I recently took a critical eye to the lyrics of the USA national anthem and was surprised to realize that it's basically about killing people all night long and not getting killed yourself.
It's not about equality, the American dream, honor, economic strength, ingenuity. It's about killing people with bombs. And a flag.
To be fair, when the poem was written we were getting our asses kicked and survival was not assured.
If you look at the events of the moment, the significant part is the "not getting killed" part.
If things had gone differently, we could all be speaking English today!
To be fair, it wasn't even adopted as the national anthem until 1931in the middle of decades of nationalism, and hateful "patriotism" designed to force a very specific image of America that is NOT inclusive to others.
Today there are far too many morons who think so many of these oppressive things were instituted by the founders and therefore it should remain as is forever. The same assholes who think some past heyday was "better" than today.
It's up there with the pledge of allegiance, in god we trust, and various statues and shit.
Fuck these people.
Let's hope that jarheads have some common sense.
Wasn't there some top brass saying during first term that it's not that clear-cut "obey bitch" if Mango Mussolini says "fire"?
Imagine being this fragile
Does anyone have a list of words that the new administration is now allowing that the previous administration had blocked?
Looking for an advanced copy of the Newspeak Dictionary?
No, I'm curious to know which words or phrases the last administration wasn't allowing. My guess is that there isn't such a list.
I am too. And I can't help thinking I'm in some dystopian society.
It's not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they're not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code
But, it is unlike that. Companies were changing the name of an existing feature to be more inclusive. Trump is more REMOVING data sets or data fields entirely. It's not renaming "gender" to "sex" because they believe there is no difference, it's completely removing climate change information from websites.
I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.
draw.set_color(r=0,g=0,b=0) # Adjust text color to very very dark grey
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Some parts of some DEI initiatives were dumb during the BLM protests, therefore we must do digital nazi bookburnings.🤡
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