• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    there’s no way you could even guess the skin color of a person by reading their comment. i could be a 70-year old asian man for all you care.

    maybe because “race” just isn’t discussed as much because it’s also basically a social construct besides minor evolutionary differences.

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      People of different background have more chance to have a bigger diversity of point of view. You may not be able to guess the background of a single commenter, but you can spot things missing. Also, I wasn’t actually thinking about race, but gender identities and sexual orientations as well.

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              Ah “skosh”…I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it in writing, but my first mentor at my first career job used it all the time. Every amount of distance under a foot (in a structural discipline) was a skosh of some sort.

              Just a bit of a skosh, a slight skosh…a good healthy skosh…

              Brought back a good memory there.

              • hakase@lemm.ee
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                Fun fact, “skosh” comes from the occupation of Japan after WWII, from Japanese “sukoshi” ‘a little bit’.

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      Race is a social construct that impacts so many people in a very real way. The race that you’re sorted into affects so much of where you can go, what you can do, and how the government treats you.