Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Job Offer Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:15:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 133 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:15:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="360ba4287a98ef56ee86972c7072f495"; logging-data="3721223"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185jNTYSOt+1L+SUO0qKpxhGubRKk4tVTU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VItkCir0CgxuXM4kLpQecEVbAfU= Bytes: 6508 On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:34:26 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: >On 3/21/2025 6:56 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> On 3/21/2025 5:46 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>> On 3/21/2025 5:58 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>> On 3/21/2025 4:54 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>> On 3/21/2025 5:04 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:41:36 -0400, Zen Cycle >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 2:44 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:32:02 -0500, AMuzi >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 12:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 6:06 AM, John B. wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:04:16 -0400, zen cycle >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 12:23 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey, let's have none of that DEI stuff here. You're >>>>>>>>>>>>>> supposed to pretend >>>>>>>>>>>>>> black people never existed. Like Jackie Robinson, for >>>>>>>>>>>>>> example. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey, they aren't pretending he never existed, they're >>>>>>>>>>>>> pretending he >>>>>>>>>>>>> wasn't black. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense- department- >>>>>>>>>>>>> jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was- mistakenly- >>>>>>>>>>>>> removed/ar-AA1BfyKN >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> The ethnic cleansing lead to other "mistakes". >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> "Besides the Robinson information, the official said >>>>>>>>>>>>> other content will >>>>>>>>>>>>> be republished, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola >>>>>>>>>>>>> Gay, the Navajo >>>>>>>>>>>>> Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and >>>>>>>>>>>>> the Marines at >>>>>>>>>>>>> Iwo Jima. Enola Gay was the name of a B-29 Superfortress >>>>>>>>>>>>> bomber." >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, let's pretend institutionalized rascism never existed. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> It has probably has always existed and probably always >>>>>>>>>>>> will -"Them >>>>>>>>>>>> guys over there, they ain't no good!" >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> But what we're seeing now is official actions to wipe out >>>>>>>>>>> public access to information containing some "trigger words" >>>>>>>>>>> using crude algorithms generated by glorified hackers >>>>>>>>>>> working for an unelected billionaire. Seriously, we >>>>>>>>>>> shouldn't read about the "Enola Gay" bomber? Changing URLs >>>>>>>>>>> by automatically prefixing them with "dei" if the subjects >>>>>>>>>>> of the web pages are black? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> That's ignorant bullshit. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with >>>>>>>>>> you.   Ill considered over reaction, and it ought to be >>>>>>>>>> reworked. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> In the same way that killing white SA farmers because they >>>>>>>>>> are white is not a good resolution to the prior racism. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> "I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with >>>>>>>>> you." >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I did research too, and all I see is people claiming that it's >>>>>>>>> being >>>>>>>>> done.   Much like people making claims about Trumps visit to >>>>>>>>> Russia. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense-department- >>>>>>> jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was-mistakenly- >>>>>>> removed/ar-AA1BfyKN >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I can't imagine what it's like to wander though life so willfully >>>>>>> ignorant. >>>>>> >>>>>> "mistakenly" >>>>> >>>>> That's like "Judge, I shot him by mistake! He moved his head in >>>>> front of my handgun just as I pulled the trigger. And I had his >>>>> wallet so I could  give it to his widow." >>>>> >>>>> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-restores- some- >>>>> webpages-honoring-minority-service-members-but- defends- dei-purge >>>>> >>>>> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us- politics/ >>>>> military-trump-dei-code-talkers-b2716915.html >>>>> >>>>> https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/dei-web-pages- cms- nih-go- >>>>> dark-00200123 >>>>> >>>>> But I understand your ignorance. You can't open your eyes while your >>>>> head is buried in the sand. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Which confirms that the action was hasty and not well thought >>>> through, as we discussed. >>>> >>>> It also shows me they are correcting, which is right. >>> >>> They are correcting only as a response to widespread outrage from both >>> sides of the political spectrum. I think they were surprised that even >>> Republicans revered military and others who were not lily white. >>> >> >> Ohferchrissake. >> They erred. And they are rectifying the errors. > >And what could possibly have triggered that error? It didn't happen at >random, Andrew. > >They realized their "error" only when the political blowback hit them in >the face. Easy to claim, impossible to back up.. -- C'est bon Soloman