I don't understand how picking between two different browser tracking technologies can "help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, and discrimination against those with mental illness with four lines of code,"
Because, Jesus if it were that easy why didn't we solve racism and sexism decades ago?
You can't entirely eliminate murders and you can't entirely eliminate racism. But you can *help* reduce them. It's so very telling when people reframe efforts to make improvements as claims of 100% effective solutions.
How does any of this reduce racism, which would require it to change what's in peoples' hearts. All this and the other crap that social companies do is push it somewhere else.
This isn't about reducing people being racist, this is about reducing systemic bias in advertising which is one way in which racism manifests itself in our organization of society and economics.
Also, you're on/. What the fuck is this about what's in peoples hearts? People have brains, and the ideas in those brains can be changed. I don't know if you're saying nobody has ever become less or more racist with the passage of time, but it sounds like that. And that's dumb, it happens all the time. Non racist pe
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Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't understand how picking between two different browser tracking technologies can "help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, and discrimination against those with mental illness with four lines of code,"
Because, Jesus if it were that easy why didn't we solve racism and sexism decades ago?
Re:Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:3)
*help*
You can't entirely eliminate murders and you can't entirely eliminate racism. But you can *help* reduce them. It's so very telling when people reframe efforts to make improvements as claims of 100% effective solutions.
Re: Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:1)
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This isn't about reducing people being racist, this is about reducing systemic bias in advertising which is one way in which racism manifests itself in our organization of society and economics.
Also, you're on /. What the fuck is this about what's in peoples hearts? People have brains, and the ideas in those brains can be changed. I don't know if you're saying nobody has ever become less or more racist with the passage of time, but it sounds like that. And that's dumb, it happens all the time. Non racist pe