#AI is Accelerating Inequality<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Jaden3" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jaden3</span></a></span> </p><p>And remember. </p><p>This is everyone's <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> people are <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/oppressed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppressed</span></a> when <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> people act out the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a>. Oppression isn't something that just happens to people. My forebears built some hefty <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> of oppression, but these systems still need buy-in to keep going.</p><p>In computer systems, we use the word <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privilege</span></a> to describe the level of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a> a user has. Whether they can <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a> a file. Whether they can <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> a file. </p><p>Our <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> is updated by <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a>. By <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a>. For most of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> history, Black people did not have update access to government. This is not Black history, this is <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a>. </p><p>When you research Black history, remember this is our shared history. </p><p>These are the stories about our <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nation</span></a>. Many of these are like the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> stories that are told in whispers. Bad things that were done by people that we're related to. </p><p>When people say that they don't want this taught because it will make their <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> feel bad about themselves, they usually mean one of two things: </p><p>- /they/ feel bad about this <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> themselves, and they feel the kind of <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/guilt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilt</span></a> that they want to hide from. They want their kids to remain <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/innocent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innocent</span></a> about the evil in the world, especially this kind</p><p>or</p><p>- they /don't/ feel bad about these <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/evils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evils</span></a> and they do /not/ want to be <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/judged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judged</span></a> by their children</p>