spujb@lemmy.cafe to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 6 months agolemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"lemmy.cafeimagemessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1526arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareMalgas@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoYeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 months agoAnd NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.
Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.
And NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.