spujb@lemmy.cafe to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 11 个月前lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"lemmy.cafeimagemessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1538arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1538arrow-down1imagelemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"lemmy.cafespujb@lemmy.cafe to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 11 个月前message-square189fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMalgas@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 个月前Yeah, 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-211 个月前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.
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.