I really like this blog post and always read it.
But am always sad, that he didn’t actually include examples yet.
Nor is there a comment section, as he references, for us to view.
This has been happening for centuries though. Cao Cao mandated that first and last names needed to be at least 3 characters in all government forms. This move upset Lu Bu, which decided that war was the only way to settle the issue.
You mean Cao Cao advised the Emperor to mandate, right?
Ha. iirc he did have some level of sovereignty. But for such stupid throwaway comment, I admit I didn’t actually remember much about what stage of his career overlapped with Lu Bu’s…
“200 soldiers were killed in the war and an additional 500000 people starved in the ensuing famine.”
Stupid bit of code but to call it RACISM is a bit much
Racism doesn’t require malice. Something can still be racist in effect, without intention.
But also the Tweet is probably tongue-in-cheek.
They clearly didn’t test this rule with a variety of cultures. They probably only tested it against white names.
I don’t disagree with you, but I know someone with the last name Øe, and that’s very much a white name.
I tend to just mentally replace ‘white people’ with ‘white Americans’
I don’t think they tested it at all
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