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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 2 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.498s | source
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praptak ◴[11 Dec 25 05:46 UTC] No.46228088[source]▶
Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.
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midnitewarrior ◴[11 Dec 25 06:20 UTC] No.46228261[source]▶
I don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a priority for this administration.

Keep in mind that the transgenic mouse breeding program used to make lab mice for research got defined because the President claimed Democrats were so woke they were funding "trans" mice research.

Half of what they are doing is virtue signalling and posturing without any real understanding of what they are doing.

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rdiddly ◴[11 Dec 25 07:10 UTC] No.46228535[source]▶
All true except the fact that it's not virtue that they're signaling.
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ndsipa_pomu ◴[11 Dec 25 10:20 UTC] No.46229646[source]▶
Cruelty signalling?
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oneeyedpigeon ◴[11 Dec 25 11:07 UTC] No.46229949[source]▶
I prefer "ideology signalling" so that it's neutral and we can use it to apply to both sides.
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watwut ◴[11 Dec 25 13:46 UTC] No.46231294[source]▶
I prefer cruelty signaling, because there is profound difference between the impact of the two on the world. Insisting on naming things so that "bad thing" and "good thing" are undistinguishable is not neutral, it is biased and favors bad actors.
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1. oneeyedpigeon ◴[11 Dec 25 15:49 UTC] No.46232859[source]▶
Sure, but that's immaterial to this context, which seeks an apolitical term for "says things they don't believe to curry favour".
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2. watwut ◴[11 Dec 25 22:52 UTC] No.46238455[source]▶
It is material exactly here. The preference for "ideology signaling" comes from desire to frame both sides as the same. "Cruelty signaling" is very accurate descriptor. It does not even suggest right wing only thing, if someone on the left signals cruelty, they would engage in cruelty signaling. And if someone on the right performatively helps poor, they are engaging in virtue signaling.

The trouble is, if the things are called as what they are, you cant say "both sides are the same". Because one side is promoting cruelty and the other is not.

> says things they don't believe to curry favour

If you do not believe that trans people should be beating up, but say so to look manly to your boss, you still promoted beating of trans.