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A new campaign — called I Am Not A Typo — is urging tech companies to fix ethnic bias in their algorithms to stop autocorrect mangling so many people's names.
It’s an example of structural/systemic/societal racism. Western industrialised civilisation has been developed and led by white men for hundreds of years - the inherent bias that comes from that often ends up discriminating against and disenfranchising non-white, non-male people in society without anyone deliberately intending it. Another way to think about it is that white men experience a higher level of privilege by default than any other group in Western society. As a white man, I have the privilege of my name being included (or being more likely to be included) by default in one of these dictionaries.
It’s an example of structural/systemic/societal racism. Western industrialised civilisation has been developed and led by white men for hundreds of years - the inherent bias that comes from that often ends up discriminating against and disenfranchising non-white, non-male people in society without anyone deliberately intending it. Another way to think about it is that white men experience a higher level of privilege by default than any other group in Western society. As a white man, I have the privilege of my name being included (or being more likely to be included) by default in one of these dictionaries.