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Originally Posted by bcj
"Them" are all fake now and are no longer human. Thanks.
Jim Crow continues unabated.
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have you followed any of the google firing of their co-lead of AI, Timnit Gebru?
there's not a ton of factual info, but what is there seems to imply that she had a number of preconceived notions on racism and AI, that biased in the direction that she seemed to think that white people set up computers to discriminate against people of color. it seems she made a lot of demands(the demands and their specifics are murky at best though) that were somewhat related to this as well..
everyone loves to highlight white-on-black, but always seem to forget that it works the other way around as well.
i've come to the conclusion over the years working in a variety of different houses that different ethnicities are raised, taught, and encouraged/discouraged in extremely different ways. many of these methods are directly counter-intuitive to other ethnicities. it's a nice idea for us all to sit around the campfire and sing kumbaya, but the reality is that it will likely never happen. because the cultural divide is too great.
most recent example: back before covid, my pastors house was teepeed by the youth group. it was a fun prank for the kids, and the pastor had a good laugh over it. he thanked them for the months-supply of toilet paper.
a few days later, a black neighbor knocked on his door, and started apologizing for the local community and the horrific way they've treated him, and if he'd already filed a police report. it took a while for him to even understand what she was going on about, but finally realized that she was talking about the teepee job that had been done in fun.
they got to talking, and it came about that in her original culture, to cover someone's house like that was a sign of significant disgrace. to her, it would have been no worse to have burned a cross with the kids chanting around it in white hoods.
after white american culture was explained to her a little more, she started to relax some, and my pastor learned an aspect of another culture that he'd never heard of, or had ever even considered to exist. but once it was explained to him, he was the one apologizing and trying to better understand.
there are so many acceptable nuances like this to one culture that are flagrant acts of violence in other cultures that it's impossible not to brush up against them from time to time. because we are all so engrained in our individual beliefs being 'the right way', less and less we offer the patience and time to understand others beliefs and how they differ from our own. because of that the divide(label it racism if you want) between cultures only stands to grow, not shrink.