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I'm a contractor for uscis. We were ordered to change all instances of the word 'immigrant' to 'alien'. We said ok and shrugged because our systems actually use the word 'person'. They didn't say anything about that and we didn't ask
What would happen if someone began adding banned words to important parts of a database?
Will they return the master-slave terminology? It's actually funny how the Newspeak wheel is turning.
It's called an euphemism treadmill
Smartest thing would be to just adjust the output so that its easily reverted.
This is literally what I've been doing, but there are people that are just overwriting shit.
their idiots. if anything breaks doing something more akin to masking to nothing will make them look like a hero. doing something that can't be undone is wack.
Imagine being this fragile
What a waste of human endeavor.
Literally flushing money down the drain to feed ego. It's honestly pathetic and disgusting.
Nuh uhn! It's streamlining the woke removal with maximum efficiency^TM^
Someone smart tell me how to take advantage of this to make the IRS forget I exist.
change your name to Diversity E. Inclusion
This made me laugh, it has Wile E. Coyote vibes to it as a solution
*how to make IRS forgetn't to tax the rich
No they've already figured that out and I'm certainly not rich.
Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
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
This is why it's essential, now more than ever, to keep these words and notions alive, let the truth be an act of rebellion in itself.
Life is meaningless without diversity, and it is up to each and every one of us to protect it.
They usually don't care, they just claim some imaginary East-Asian country banned any kind of self-expression to the point all people are wearing the same clothes, which made crime disappear over night or some similar bullshit. They want to claim humans are not different by nature.
for f in $(find .); do sed -i 's/wokeness//g' $f; done
find -exec my dude
This will break if the filename has spaces in it iirc.
Regex is the real deep state
This level of pettiness could be amusing if it wasn't in control of the world's largest army and nuclear arsenal.
Edit: and not actively trying to murder people, now that I think about it.
