• Malgas@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 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.