LengAwaits

Give it another 60 or so years. It took the US Justice Department over 100 years to "Review and Evaluate" the Tulsa massacre.

Any word on Beepy V2? Migicovsky's been pretty quiet on that lately.

Has Migicovsky said anything Beepy 2.0 lately, or is it basically a dead project at this point?

Seems a bit reductionist.

If the only two people running are Mr. Magoo and Adolf Hitler, and a voter thinks it’s acceptable to let Hitler win, that voter is a fascist or a fascist enabler. End of. And that is not some minor thing, some little oopsie, but a major problem.

What if they'd been subjected to a "Fascist propaganda" campaign, as you called it?

Left and Right wing liberals, it would seem... if 2020 was any indication.

Let's say you're making widgets, but your widgets aren't selling very well. You look around and realize that your entire company is made up of Chinese women, from designers to marketers to manufacturers. All Chinese women.

You live in an area with a very diverse range of people, and your product is not intended only for Chinese women. You want to sell your widgets to as many people as possible. Unfortunately, no one on your team is able to effectively market them to other demographics, because they don't know what those demographics want in a widget.

This is just a ridiculous example, but I think illustrates at least one way that diversity is useful to a business.

Here's more information and examples from Washington State University's college of business.

It's tough. Colbert is actually a great example in this case, because, while I also loved his schtick, a lot of conservatives didn't realize it was satire. There was actually a study done about it, in fact!

The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report

I wish we'd gotten to see the rest of Lovecraft's redemption arc.

He died so soon after beginning to realize and acknowledge that his views about the world had been abhorrent.

Edit to add:

If anyone's curious to read an example of the beginnings of his realization, check out this letter, written about a month before his death:

https://github.com/punchmonster/Lovecraft-Letters/blob/master/19370207-Catherine-L-Moore.md

It's a fairly long letter, but the whole thing is interesting. He seems to have been radicalized and was becoming quite critical of capitalism, if not a full blown Marxist. You'll find the following quote in the last paragraph:

I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was I that much of a dub at 33 ... only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it—I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better!

There's more evidence in there than just that passage, but this is already becoming a wall of text!

So do I.

"I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention."

“Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. These are often difficult things to say but I have come to see more and more that it is necessary to utter the truth in order to deal with the great problems that we face in our society.”

What actions do you suggest?

You can want it all you like, but history has shown that that only works on paper.

Maybe someday that'll no longer be the case, but that day isn't today.