A project called “Remove-DEI” shows the tweaks used to remove “forbidden words” from a database about childhood school readiness.
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
xenomor@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Internals of state structures being mandated some terminology is not really a violation of free speech.
In theory there are two approaches to discrimination - the neutral and the compensatory. The neutral one is that eventually discrimination will dissolve if the structure is built truly neutrally. The compensatory one is to detect kinds of discrimination and compensate for them specifically. I can imagine both the former and the latter feeling nicer in theory. The former - well, no special cases, just prevent the structure itself from reinforcing injustice. The latter - well, everything in life is a special case, you’ll never have a perfect structure, so it’s better to work with what you have.
It’s like different kinds of interference in radio, requiring different solutions. In fact they are not contradictory and both have their place in a working system (I haven’t heard of such).
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Oops no such thing as a neutral state structure, thank you come again