• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Censorship is a slippery slope.

    So I take it you think the Washington Commanders should have stayed the Washington Redskins because not censoring is more important than it being disrespectful to a large group of people? My eyes would fall out if they rolled any harder.

    No one’s censoring the history or saying it never happened, we’re just saying “Maybe there’s a better, less controversial image to use for this purpose.” Which really shouldn’t be a very controversial take at all.

    It’s not like you can’t see the old Redskins logo on Wikipedia, or that the Wikipedia entry for the Lenna image would disappear. That would be censorship, not this. This is just “don’t use this controversial image in professional documents like science research.” Literally, specifically, IEEE journals.

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      7 months ago

      Uh, a consensual photograph of a naked woman, especially a cropped headshot of her, is not the same as a racial slur.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      7 months ago

      Since you obviously feel strongly about this issue, you might consider your bias as a reason to read more carefully. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

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        7 months ago

        Censorship is a slippery slope.

        I read it very carefully. I’m sorry you aren’t capable of backing up what you said in the face of someone pointing out that isn’t actually censorship.

        Further, as many have pointed out, there are plenty of similar reference images available. Not using this image will not impede scientific progress, as you have so implied. (Honestly after 50 years, it’s arguable that we have much better reference images now.)

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          7 months ago

          I’m sorry you aren’t capable of backing up what you said in the face of someone pointing out that isn’t actually censorship.

          censor

          cen·​sor ˈsen(t)-sər

          2 of 2
          verb

          censored; censoring ˈsen(t)-sə-riŋ

          transitive verb

          : to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable

          also : to suppress or delete as objectionable

          [Edit: formatting]

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s not like you can’t see the old Redskins logo on Wikipedia, or that the Wikipedia entry for the Lenna image would disappear.

      Give it time.