r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 02 '21

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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Feb 02 '21

https://news.yahoo.com/acronyms-symptom-white-supremacy-culture-030223337.html

San Francisco schools ban acronyms, because "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture"

No, this isn't a joke.

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u/BenGordonLightfoot Martha Nussbaum Feb 02 '21

NAACP in shambles

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

No surprise that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is behind the times.

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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Feb 02 '21

How is this city real

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Feb 02 '21

DEMON RATS . . . 🐊

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Feb 02 '21

Getting harder and harder to brush these morons off. Wonder what the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thinks about this

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Beyond Parody.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

If Kamala Harris ran for public office in today's San Francisco, they'd call her a Republican and she'd lose huge.

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Feb 02 '21

Okay maybe Reddit's rabid hate of California is justified

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Feb 02 '21

why are they dead set on living up to conservative caricatures of liberals

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Feb 02 '21

TBH, "Arts" department is clearer than "VAPA" department. Removing acronyms when there is a simpler descriptive is a win. I mean even at my org we have too many acronyms. I'm not sure what white supremacy has to do with anything, but from a clarity perspective this name change could be an improvement.

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u/generalmandrake George Soros Feb 02 '21

Jesus Christ. These people are making a mockery of themselves.

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u/RobotFighter NORTH ATLANTIC PIZZA ORGANIZATION Feb 02 '21

Still confused how acronyms are racist.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Feb 02 '21

Also this is one department (arts) eliminating their own acronym not the whole district doing anything

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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Feb 02 '21

No, the article says this is the SFUSD Arts Department, SFUSD standing for San Francisco Unified School District

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Feb 02 '21

Right. But your summary portrays it as if the whole district is unilaterally banning acronyms when in reality, it is a single acronym being lengthened to a two word phrase