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athousanderrors) wrote2017-11-01 11:49 am
athousanderrors) wrote2017-11-01 11:49 am
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copperbadge: inkskinned: how interesting;“witch
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copperbadge:
inkskinned:
how interesting;
“witch hunt”
from a time when
we slaughtered innocent women
by burning them alive
with everyone watching
now means
“when a man is called out
for how he’s been acting.”
True story, I work with a database that is basically full of rich philanthropic people, and every time we have an interaction with one of these people as fundraisers, it’s marked down in a note in their record. These notes are often narratives of our meetings with them, and we have a way of searching the text of the entire database’s worth of notes to find a single keyword. So I can search, say, “batman”, and turn up every time Batman has ever come up in conversation with any of our donors.
A friend of mine and I once spent an afternoon keyword searching the most ridiculous things we could come up with, like “kidnapped” or “livestock” or, indeed, “Batman”. (One of our donors co-produced several Batman films.)
I got the idea to search Witch and turned up about two dozen incidences of the word – and every single one was a white dude over fifty worth more than $5M, claiming that he was the “victim of a witch hunt” over a recent failed business deal, lawsuit, or news article.
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copperbadge:
inkskinned:
how interesting;
“witch hunt”
from a time when
we slaughtered innocent women
by burning them alive
with everyone watching
now means
“when a man is called out
for how he’s been acting.”
True story, I work with a database that is basically full of rich philanthropic people, and every time we have an interaction with one of these people as fundraisers, it’s marked down in a note in their record. These notes are often narratives of our meetings with them, and we have a way of searching the text of the entire database’s worth of notes to find a single keyword. So I can search, say, “batman”, and turn up every time Batman has ever come up in conversation with any of our donors.
A friend of mine and I once spent an afternoon keyword searching the most ridiculous things we could come up with, like “kidnapped” or “livestock” or, indeed, “Batman”. (One of our donors co-produced several Batman films.)
I got the idea to search Witch and turned up about two dozen incidences of the word – and every single one was a white dude over fifty worth more than $5M, claiming that he was the “victim of a witch hunt” over a recent failed business deal, lawsuit, or news article.
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