A project called “Remove-DEI” shows the tweaks used to remove “forbidden words” from a database about childhood school readiness.
The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.
Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
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).
What the fuck did I just read? This sounds actually a lot like raw unapologetic hate of people that don’t fit [blank] from society. It’s utterly insane. It will hurt you eventually, you know that right?
I don’t think I’m taking side in that text.
I do think you shouldn’t make opinions of text you didn’t understand.
You are taking side in that text. I fully understand it, it’s not as elegant and complex as you think. It’s just evil.
Well, impossible to argue with such a claim, but if you really want for it to be something worth your own time, you can explain what side, in your opinion, I’m taking, when saying that there are two approaches at making a state structure support equality (something almost every ideology, even fascist, in some sense wants, they differ in the core criterion before which people must be equal), and while Musk&Trump&rest are claiming to be transitioning from one to another, they have no intention to finish it, so they are just breaking things.
Damn right it’s neither elegant nor complex, it’s actually so long because it’s clumsy.
Oops no such thing as a neutral state structure, thank you come again
Yes, there’s no such thing. Just as there’s no such thing as perfect compensation.
Also by neutral structure I mean what they are pretending to be making now, and by compensatory what’s supposed to have existed before. I hope that hasn’t eluded you.
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
The irony that the author was red scared… all this authoritarianism… certainly Trump’s a commie.
The author was that after getting a look at how Stalin’s USSR worked.
I think we can agree that even a marxist-themed totalitarianism in an English-speaking country is extremely unlikely to be Stalinist, thus similar to 1984.
It’s not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they’re not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code
I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.
draw.set_color(r=0,g=0,b=0) # Adjust text color to very very dark greyJust call it the zero color wink wink
Apparently the new slogan is “Vox Populi No DEI”.
The content filtering approach to government, or, if you will, a filterocracy.
That’s old news.
