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 people can have their ideas changed and end up in white power groups, and people in white power groups can be reformed and recognize the errors in their ways. Social companies making efforts, be they large efforts or small efforts, effective efforts or less effective efforts all contribute towards how easy or hard it is for people to succumb to different sets of ideas.
This weak ass shit where there are no sliding scales where things either work super great or are meaningless, or companies that are super evil or super altruistic.. the world isn't like that. It's messy, it's imperfect, and things happen with a mix of different intentions and motivations. Not being able to parse and deal with that is no reason to take the intellectually easy way out and say nothing does anything. Your attitude strikes me as somebody who simply doesn't want to engage in a world that isn't simple or clear cut.
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?
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*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)
Re: Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:1)
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 people can have their ideas changed and end up in white power groups, and people in white power groups can be reformed and recognize the errors in their ways. Social companies making efforts, be they large efforts or small efforts, effective efforts or less effective efforts all contribute towards how easy or hard it is for people to succumb to different sets of ideas.
This weak ass shit where there are no sliding scales where things either work super great or are meaningless, or companies that are super evil or super altruistic .. the world isn't like that. It's messy, it's imperfect, and things happen with a mix of different intentions and motivations. Not being able to parse and deal with that is no reason to take the intellectually easy way out and say nothing does anything. Your attitude strikes me as somebody who simply doesn't want to engage in a world that isn't simple or clear cut.