you're asking for a lot of mental gymnastics from those of us in marginalised groups, to ignore the more obvious interpretation that it's a joke at the expense of the people the Nazis tortured and killed. If you find yourself needing to explain how a joke isn't actually promoting Nazism maybe it's time to retire it.. Zero Punctuation had some good lines, this wasn't one of them.
evidence points to "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" being a "backronym", an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a "rice"?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn't agree that it's possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it's not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word's bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
this just sounds even less believable: you're in a jursidiction where the amount of data you have to store on students is exactly specified, and you're liable to prosecution for storing any single piece of data less or more? I would appreciate extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim.
anyway, even if that's true, you could be using your knowledge to help privacy-conscious students like OP, instead of throwing a rulebook at them and casting aspersions about their motivations. I return to "reconsider your views, and the impact of your job".
"I'm as left as they come" is a really weird thing to say to try and defend against criticism from further left... make peace with your reactionary position, or change your opinion, you can't have it both ways
the problem isn't that it's offensive to console gamers it's that it's offensive to people in groups (jewish, queer, communist, Russian) who the Nazis killed over 12 million of, jesus why is this so hard to understand
we are very screwed, in large part because of people like you, enthusiastically volunteering to help with propaganda in support of corporate real estate and retail tycoons.
you could be part of the solution by wearing a mask.
perhaps research the effects of repeated COVID infections on otherwise-fine people, reconsider how transmission and probability works ("oh, there's no point using condoms, anyone I have any kind of sex with is likely to get HIV from someone else"), and try and imagine how you'd feel if you or someone you care about had an immune system disorder and couldn't safely go outside in your area because of healthier people who prioritise their comfort in not wearing a small piece of cloth on their faces
wow what a disgusting take - people with medical conditions can't go out in public for the rest of their lives because wearing a facemask is mildly inconvenient for you?
you wearing a mask could prevent you from infecting dozens if not hundreds of people with COVID over the rest of your life, several of whom could die or get longterm disabilities from it. very unclear how what other people are doing affects that
trivialising a student's desire for privacy as being about playing videogames is a lot more ridiculous than anything the OP said.
maybe rethink your uncritical support for surveillance, and either organise with your coworkers to make your school's policies more respectful of its students, or find a less unethical job.
"nobody cares", except people with medical conditions who can't risk getting COVID so can't go out in public since people stopped wearing masks, or those of us who don't want to be part of a large-scale experiment about the debilitating effects of long COVID. maybe try different anti-fog products, there are some that definitely work. and wear a fucking mask
boosters don't have much impact on you getting other people sick. you can get a spray to stop glasses fogging up, you can get cooling towels or a personal fan to deal with overheating. wear a fucking mask please
"downtown is .. shitty" so move to the "shitty" area, help make it better.
unless you mean "I am prepared to live in a car-brained hellscape as long as my neighbours are all white" as most suburbanites have done through history, in which case please move into the sea
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you're asking for a lot of mental gymnastics from those of us in marginalised groups, to ignore the more obvious interpretation that it's a joke at the expense of the people the Nazis tortured and killed. If you find yourself needing to explain how a joke isn't actually promoting Nazism maybe it's time to retire it.. Zero Punctuation had some good lines, this wasn't one of them.