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
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)
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A non-trivial proportion of your readership perceives that usage in the context of a wide, broad, deep linguistic habit of associating [metaphorical] ‘darkness’ of evil with literal ‘darkness’ of skin tone.
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Granted that that’s not your intent, perpetuating the usage of darkness for malignity props the door open for bad actors who actually *want* to equate evil darkness with Blackness.
It’s reason enough for me to avoid that if my friends ask me to avoid it in solidarity w/ them.
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There aren't any black Jews then? Or Iranian ones, or Sephardim, Mizrahi because we're all the same in every thought, origin, language, deed, cultural reference?
Why don't we just all stop talking altogether, and abolish writing.
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Surely this is a false dichotomy. Some don’t mind the metaphor, and others take it personally. If you choose to use it anyway, you choose to offend some but not all.
I don’t mind choosing other expressions.
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I'm debating. Discourse. It's not argument. I gave a reference, I read the one given, I get blocked. That is exclusion. What did anyone learn or expand from that beyond more anger. WE are not taught truth. It's not a personal attack on anyone, but one on historical assimilation.
Jan 1, 2023 · 7:10 PM UTC
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