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SilasX • today at 5:34 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Obligatory reference to Douglas Hofstsdter’s parody about gendered pronouns where he imagines an alternate reality in which English pronouns are race-based instead of gender-based, and they have the Miss/Mrs. distinction, but only non-whites have to use it, and it’s based on whether you have a job — because obviously only non-whites need to advertise this.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...