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

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      2•9 months ago

      My point exactly, thanks.

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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      Physically removing a sign doeant sound like words to me.

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        What’s on the sign then, banana pudding?

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