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  • Re: Racial Division

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Sun Dec 3 09:47:00 2023
    "Support local businesses" sounds a LOT better than "Support black businesses.

    More google users are probably going to be made happy by the latter than triggered by it. I am fairly conservative and the fact that they advertise
    a way to support black businesses does not bother me. Unless I think they are businesses in my local area I probably won't click on it so I am probably
    not in their target audience, but I am sure a target audience exists.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/200 to Mike Powell on Sun Dec 3 15:22:52 2023
    "Support local businesses" sounds a LOT better than "Support black businesses.

    More google users are probably going to be made happy by the latter than triggered by it. I am fairly conservative and the fact that they advertise a way to support black businesses does not bother me. Unless
    I think they are businesses in my local area I probably won't click on
    it so I am probably not in their target audience, but I am sure a target audience exists.

    What you're saying sounds logical; people who use Google trust Google, so by doing what Google says ("racially discriminate against who you buy products from") they probably feel a sense of satisfacton ("I helped black people today.")

    They finally removed the racial suggestion from their homepage, so now the only idiotic thing they have at the bottom of it is "Our third decade of climate action." (IOW: "We've been propagating the idea of Democrats taking of your money for 30 years.")

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