OTD in 1998, I recieved an invite to join what later became The Web Standards Project.
(In hindsight, I like the original title much better)
// @zeldman @mholzschlag @AaronGustafson @feather @patrick_h_lauke @brucel @setmajer @meyerweb
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Don't delete it please just because it wasn't understood by other people in context. If someone is offended they can express their offense but that doesn't mean we can't express our humor. End of story.
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Folks. The story behind this 22yr old screenshot is that we gathered a bunch of people to *kill* Netscape4. There, I said it. Context matters. A Browser is a thing, not a human being. This tweet has no connection whatsoever with any of the current events in former democracies.
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You know, my hometown got on 60 Minutes last weekend because we're all trying to come to grips with a bunch of people who gathered together to *kill* a shoeshine boy and ended up destroying the Black side of town. So yeah, context matters. Your cute joke is Black folks' lives.
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I repeat: All the reactions were unclear. Lynch Mob is not appropriate at this time. I agree. I thought it was the word "cunt" that set people off, which is contextual. C'mon, like I don't know from hate and annihilation and genocide? Please.
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Again it wasn't an assumption it was confusion. We talked about #a11y a lot. Please understand that I am a person with traumatic brain injury and PTSD. I can always cognitively Parts when people are in a Fury.
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Some good ideas from this kerfuffle inspired personal & academic passions in language, semantics and cognition in the online world.
1. We are becoming hypervigilant with words
2. Age, location, speed of language processing and reaction disrupts
Are the two related, I wonder?
Jun 17, 2020 · 10:28 PM UTC