This story is about a business (Github) deciding to change language in their product that could carry racist connotations. It’s not about criminalizing racist language.
What if we already went down a slippery slope by permitting racist language to permeate culture and making things right requires an equally slippery slope? Could this be the reality we live in now?
I would contend, however, that those who are trying to combat racism and it’s markings in our culture are in more of an uphill climb.
This is useful. I tend to look for a universal rule I can abide by but reality requires alternative solutions. My hope is to find solutions that benefit collective society while not creating new inequities in the process. I believe conflicting realities need to be held in tension rather than allowing them to cancel each other out.
This is such a moving target but right now my eldest son is having a great time making explainer videos and posting to YouTube. He’s learning to shoot better footage, edit video, and about his subject matter. My younger kids are playing with LEGO nonstop right now and have been looking for ways to repurpose LEGO kits they’ve put together over the years using hack instructions they find on the web and Snap Circuits.
At those ages, you are still laying so much foundation and cultivating curiosity. Keep it fun, keep it widely integrated: science is history is art is math is science.