Truly honest question as I'm ignorant here. Please help me understand how "dark patterns" is racist? And remember, I've been asked why my horns don't show for nearly 60 years, so I'm really wanting to understand, not cause upset or argument. At all. xo
Todd @toddlibby
1 Jan 2023
2023 is a great time to start using “anti-patterns” for IX that is used without intent and “deceptive patterns” for those patterns that are made with intent. Let’s throw out the monolithic term “dark patterns” and get in tune with inclusive terms that do not have racist (1/2)

Jan 1, 2023 · 6:24 PM UTC

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Anti-pattern is less offensive than anti-semitic then? (Semite refers to languages, not melanin conentrations in the skin).
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I once had a random stranger tell me at a bar in Nashville, Tennessee: "Be careful when you're heading out. It's dark outside. I mean Memphis dark." I immediately felt unsafe around THIS man.
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I would have too!!!! OMG. I loved Memphis.
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You can search this very platform for why nitter.vloup.ch/search?q=dark%20…
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SO anti pattern is better?
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It's a very interesting point of view and I think I get it. I talk about death and dying because that's what's going on with me and people say I'm dark because of that but for many cultures that is not dark at all and I don't see death as Darkness I see it as reality
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Again it's hard for me I'm not a designer by trade merely by association with web but I don't believe there's a web anymore really not by the way it was meant to be so is web design a helpful term itself anymore I wonder?