In a sane world, it would be considered extremely racist to begin a presentation by declaring your race to the audience. In our world, however, this is now a Best Practice, sanctioned by the many people at Microsoft who apparently approved this script.https://twitter.com/L0m3z/status/1456276894664384523 …
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(I should also mention that as "luck" would have it, I actually watched a bit of this live stream when it was originally on, and found a lot of the content to be distasteful, but I didn't mention it. I am happy to see I'm not the only one who had a very negative reaction.)
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Replying to @jnune09
That is an implausible excuse. We do not do this for podcasts or radio shows, where nobody can see the person, and it was never a problem. When I listen to the Bad Blood podcast, I'm not going "If only I knew what race John Carreyrou was!"
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Well you are welcome to some other arguments, such as that if it was actually for blind people, why didn't they describe what they were wearing, for example? Why was only race included? Even hair was only included for one presenter.
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It was very clear that the underlying thought was racist even if the motivation was to communicate to blind people, because the race was the most important thing communicated to the blind person, rather than a number of other important visual cues.
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