It's not quite virtue signalling (at least it doesn't have to be... The people who came up with it- who knows. They very well could have been)
One of the problems with FLoC is that it can pinhole you into a stereotype of you.
Systemic pressures toward stereotypes are one of the things making change hard.
Systemic pressures toward stereotypes are one of the things making change hard.
Particularly when people don't understand they're doing that. A recent example, from a few days ago, had a TV network informing scriptwriters and directors that they need to make their scripts more diverse by, for example, having ethnic minority actors consuming more foods, taking part in more entertainment, and dressing in ways more typically associated with their groups, as well as having more on screen friends from their own ethnic backgrounds, in short, by increasing the stereotyping of those characters...
Wow (Score:4, Insightful)
That's a bit up themselves.
I mean, good that they're doing it but they're going to sprain something with all that virtue signalling.
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One of the problems with FLoC is that it can pinhole you into a stereotype of you.
Systemic pressures toward stereotypes are one of the things making change hard.
Re:Wow (Score:2, Insightful)
Systemic pressures toward stereotypes are one of the things making change hard.
Particularly when people don't understand they're doing that. A recent example, from a few days ago, had a TV network informing scriptwriters and directors that they need to make their scripts more diverse by, for example, having ethnic minority actors consuming more foods, taking part in more entertainment, and dressing in ways more typically associated with their groups, as well as having more on screen friends from their own ethnic backgrounds, in short, by increasing the stereotyping of those characters...