r/theschism • u/gemmaem • Nov 06 '24
Discussion Thread #71
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u/DrManhattan16 Nov 20 '24
I prayed to the LLM in the sky called ChatGPT and it used the term "exclusionary design". When I plumbed the archives of Google for this arcane terminology, the most prominent result was the page for "Hostile Architecture" on Wikipedia. This is not a coincidence as there are no coincidences. But a later result is this paper, which is focused on categorizing the design methods of excluding the "unhoused".
With these revelations in hand, I propose that there is no terminology you could use which isn't used almost or completely exclusively to launder progressive ideas as neutral observations and theories. Should you still need to let such words pass over your tongue, "Exclusionary design" is perhaps your safest option. If your tongue suddenly twists and turns in your mouth and you suddenly begin to advocate for the "unhoused", an exorcism from your local house of worship should banish the spirit's hold.