• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Sadly we love hierarchy dominance just about as much as we hate how much it makes us look like apes.

      Teachers and school administrators almost always side with bullies. They can’t help themselves.

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        8 months ago

        I know. My child had a terrible time* of it, during their school years. And I’m slowly* becoming more aware, because I’ve almost no filter and blurt out whatever crosses my mind. I’m addressing it, but reversion sneaks up on me. I just have to keep working at that, and way too often, missing what seems obvious to others or very belatedly.

        *Yay autocorrect

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      8 months ago

      While I agree that we should avoid bullying rather than just avoiding bullying specific groups, this might go too far. We should just make a whitelist of people who you can bully, like Republicans or people who watch reality television.

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        8 months ago

        If we’re going here…

        Whitelist isn’t the preferred nomenclature. Use terms like allow-list or permit-list.

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            Usually a deny-list or a block-list.

            These are the inclusive terms that are getting adopted in IT, at least, and they usually work in that context. Maybe not for everything.

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                At my company, white hat hackers are to be called “offensive security researchers”. Black hat hackers are to be called “attackers”.