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Another L for bigotry (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not in the case of books treated as timeless, but we do print a lot of contemporary stuff that is designed to become irrelevant. School books, manuals, law books, phonebooks etc. It traditionally was and still is a convinient form of sharing a lot of information. Computers with dynamically changing content are there to replace it now, but they are yet to do so, and there are good reasons for it.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I think the last time I saw a phonebook was over 10 years ago.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You just reminded me about 30 years ago when I used to be mormon, we didn't know it at the time, but all the church leadership from the higher-ups were encouraging everyone to purchase new scriptures and get rid of our old ones. Turns out they had changed a lot of the text to erase past "doctrinal" concepts/faux pas 😳 . Sketchy. Of course they didn't tell us they changed anything in the scriptures but scholars over the years dug it up and did the comparisons.