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[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn't been an acronym since the early '90s.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.

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