Prejudice by Tim Minchin

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DonHopkins · 2023-10 · Recommendation

On that note, I hope you enjoy Tim Minchin's song "Prejudice", about the power of language: [VIDEO] Getting offended at illustrations representing black and white people working together is the kind of dead code we need to eliminate.

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DonHopkins · 2022-08 · Recommendation

Speaking of the G-Word, Tim Minchin wrote a brilliant and insightful song about the power of words and the language of prejudice. [VIDEO]

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DonHopkins · 2026-03 · Reference

People who hate GIMP's name are not "FOSS haters". They just hate it when certain people in the FOSS community make the entire FOSS community look bad. Here is a typical attempt to justify the name "GIMP", demanding that society change instead of admitting the name has obviously terrible meanings: [LINK] _c3ag>first thing that pops is a phrase of some biologist regards why evolution made plants green and not blue (physically, blue can absorb way more energy from the sun)... SPOILER: because makes the plantae organisms way more stable rather than performant (which opens up less windows for failings regards evolution). i use Gimp for digital collages, dead simple pixel-art and even composing a poem book for my beloved one! and that tool if it isn't perfect for the job, is probably about adjusting expectations ¶ why society can't re-signify a offensive word? [LINK] DonHopkins on Nov 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now? Sorry, but the number of people who have seen Pulp Fiction, plus the number of people who know derogatory terms for disabled people, is much greater than the number of people who know technical biological terms of art. If the GIMP developers really want to score an edgy rhetorical point about how society should get over its uptight wokeness and let them use any word they want whenever they want, and that's the hill they choose to die on, then how about they go all in, and try convincing society to re-signify t

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