Black Lives Matter
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@mariner4life said in Black Lives Matter:
the only colour the entire F1 industry cares about is green
Exactly.
Is F1 racist?
Or do the myriad non-white wealthy choose to spend their vast fortunes elsewhere?
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@MajorRage said in Black Lives Matter:
He's basically trying to dictate how the entire F1 industry should think.
He’s often seemed quite fond of telling people how good his ideas are. Fashion, exercise, diet, now racism. Love him as a driver but I really wish he’d keep his gob shut. A bit like Mansell, loved him as a driver but really wished he wasn’t such a complete fluffybunny.
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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:
@Tim I don't think Google are hiring the smartest graduates anymore.
They got overtaken by a lunatic fringe internally years ago. Same with Twitter.
Facebook is just out for Facebook, but are the least trustworthy.
Ironically, Microsoft is the good guy these days.
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@Tim While I dislike Google’s motives, I don’t actually have a problem with this. At least it’s a positively focussed thing and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people spending their own money the way they want to, and using whatever criterion they want to decide how.
It’s certainly better than the government deciding where your money has to go, and it avoids negatively judging non-black owned businesses.
Of course it encourages the virtue signallers but so long as they’re spending their own money and not telling me how to spend mine I’m OK.
What am I missing?
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@antipodean So you’re suggesting a way to allow people who want to give their money to businesses with a particular ownership profile is the same as defacing businesses with a particular ownership profile?
It seems there really is no room for nuance in 2020.
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean So you’re suggesting a way to allow people who want to give their money to businesses with a particular ownership profile is the same as defacing businesses with a particular ownership profile?
It seems there really is no room for nuance in 2020.
MLK's dream is clearly as dead as he is. I find decisions with obvious unintended consequences almost as stupid as deliberate ones. If implemented, it's certainly a great way for racists to influence their purchasing decisions. And of course there's no way of determining criteria for marking one's business as "black".
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@Tim said in Black Lives Matter:
The Somali Pirates are going to be livid to see Google steal their logo.
Surely it should have been a red heart inside a black circle?
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@antipodean I think it's just sadly funny how this is exactly what racists want.
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@JC this isn't a manipulation of an economic principle, it's a racial societal principle being mangled.
Their use of the word "equity" is ironic
This is proudly treating people differently based on skin colour and is every bit as egregious as the attitudes in the us pre MLK times, albeit the reasons and justifications offered are different yet equally flawed.
A slippery slope and it's going to take decades (and blood) to relearn that someone's skin colour is the least interesting thing about them.
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean So you’re suggesting a way to allow people who want to give their money to businesses with a particular ownership profile is the same as defacing businesses with a particular ownership profile?
It seems there really is no room for nuance in 2020.
Imagine for a second you had a "White owned" icon?
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@booboo said in Black Lives Matter:
@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean So you’re suggesting a way to allow people who want to give their money to businesses with a particular ownership profile is the same as defacing businesses with a particular ownership profile?
It seems there really is no room for nuance in 2020.
Imagine for a second you had a "White owned" icon?
Don't worry. Google no doubt has icons for other minority groups in the pipeline so soon enough you'll be able to deduce that from the lack of an icon!
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Are you open?
Do you have what I'm looking for?
Is it sensibly priced?No fucks given whatsoever to what colour the shop is
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@Siam said in Black Lives Matter:
@JC this isn't a manipulation of an economic principle, it's a racial societal principle being mangled.
Their use of the word "equity" is ironic
This is proudly treating people differently based on skin colour and is every bit as egregious as the attitudes in the us pre MLK times, albeit the reasons and justifications offered are different yet equally flawed.
A slippery slope and it's going to take decades (and blood) to relearn that someone's skin colour is the least interesting thing about them.
Or, it’s proudly allowing people who choose to do so the opportunity to be treated differently. That’s another way of looking at it. There is nothing to suggest compulsion here, it asks for users to tag businesses that might like to add the icon.
How is the reaction to this any different to the white saviours of Antica telling black Americans what is best for them?
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@JC we must acknowledge the present day context.
Would this announcement pass the "what if the other colour said it" test?
There's a nasty and unnecessary race conflict present already, getting more irrational, and this sort of stance is certainly provocative. All of these voices, and Antifa hypocrites, need to be questioned by way of solid principles.
We're wilfully traversing further away from a colour blind world - surely the logical goal.