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@ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them.

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Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them.

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@ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago
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A newly released app allows users to search for discriminatory roadway names, helping communities grasp the ubiquity of inequalities embedded in everyday spaces and the harm they cause.
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    There are words and then there are words backed by the state’s monopoly on violence. It’s harder to move forward when these old ugly names keep things rooted in the past.

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      4•9 months ago

      Yeh, I can acknowledge the difference tbh

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      Name a single word that is backed by the states monopoly on violence.

      • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        8•9 months ago

        Read the article, there are several

      • TimeSquirrel
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        Go ahead and remove or change one of these street signs without government approval, and you’ll find the violence real quick.

        • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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          2•9 months ago

          My point exactly, thanks.

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          Physically removing a sign doeant sound like words to me.

          • TimeSquirrel
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            2•9 months ago

            What’s on the sign then, banana pudding?

      • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1•9 months ago

        Just one? Washington.

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          The name the guy both are fucking dead? I dont see how thats backed with state violence?

          Its not like i can summon the FBI into ur house by chanting Washington 6 times in the mirror. And ur good old first amendment give me the right to call him a cunt. I dont see any state backed violence here.

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