The culture of regular, casual demeaning & dehumanizing language that goes on in software dev is extraordinary to me. I sit back and observe it sometimes like, wow, this knocks the wind out of me. It is pretty extraordinary how it is ALSO the tone of people proposing to be "on the side of the human"
We are all baking in very broken systems, same here as I am on a lifelong journey to interrogate my perspectives and beliefs, but I do think regularly about how to work with this population and in this field and not become desensitized or start to use this kind of argument and language
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