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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.
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    Nah, should be Papyrus, it pretends it’s a return to tradition but it’s really just ugly and racist.

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      OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is papyrus racist?

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        I’m mostly kidding with that one. It’s a tiny fraction of why that Chinese takeout font is racist, it’s (very lightly, in the case of Papyrus) the way a foreign script looks to someone who doesn’t actually understand how to read that foreign script rendered as a latin alphabet. Like yeah, I guess that’s a valid argument but I am in no way cancelling papyrus and nobody should care about this argument, lol.

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          I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you’d firstly have to say who it’s being racist towards, and it’s just a bit… vague… for that. Na’vi maybe?

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        Obligatory SNL

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0

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        don’t you know they write on [with] papyrus in Egypt and therefore it’s african and african means black especially in statesia.

        we don’t write in black, we write in charcoal. because black just makes me look whiter.

        that’s the best i can think up, sorry.

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      It’s tribal yet futuristic

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      Papyrus? Are you kidding me? There’s no place for that in a professional office setting!

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTfxtyDpqWI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

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      WEBDINGS!

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