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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates(www.cnbc.com)

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atomdmac@lemmy.world
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The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists! The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!

Jesus, we’re pathetic.

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SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now

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Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.

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andros_rex@lemmy.world
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Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?

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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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We?

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