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> Emily Lipstein typed “Motherboard” (as in, the name of this website) into a document and Google popped up to tell her she was being insensitive: “Inclusive warning. Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Consider using different words.”

It’s amazing how a Fortune 500 company can release a product that chastises you for using the word “motherboard” because it has “mother” in it, while other people insist that this is a “fringe” type of thinking and not “mainstream” on the left.

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Birthingpersonboard you bigot

Minus 10 social credit points. Birthingpersonboard contains the word SON. Please use a more inclusive term like Birthingper-INDIVIDUAL-board

It's actually main board or logic board, as per, for example, the Apple guidelines.

"Parentboard".

But yes, anytime you hear "AI-powered" and "Natural language parsing", these kinds of cases are inevitable. I know google prides itself on technology, but there are some things like language that are moving so fast, with so many states that an initiative like this takes actual humans to debug. But given Youtube, it seems like Google is still stuck in the thought that they can automate everything.

Orphaned people would like a word with you about your harmful language.

FFS

A $trillion corporation's garbage product is The Left now?

It seems people forget that actual leftism is an economic theory regarding how labour relates to capital. The fact that it's conflated with angry twitter wokescolds is very convenient for those who want to turn people away from leftist economic ideas.

People say the same about the religious right 20-30 years ago. The modern, younger right really isn't concerned with censoring video games or making blasphemy illegal, but the general perception by anyone on the outside is that they'll force you into church on Sundays and go around lynching the melanated.

> “mainstream” on the left

What connection is there between left/progressive thought and this particular brand of corporate speak?

Are you seriously not seeing how these "inclusive warnings" come from the left?

Let's put it this way: different people care about different things, caring about certain things can put someone in "the left" category. But who cares about this whitelist/blacklist/motherboard bullshit? Maybe it's a US thing (as I don't know anyone who thinks "blacklist" is offensive), but even so some commenters here say that they don't know many in the US that care about it.

Act Blue donations, funding of progressive organizations, etc.

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