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    3 days ago

    Who cares? Just because multi-trillion dollar corporation Google has to deal with it doesn’t mean we have to play along.

    The politicians and corporations can do whatever bullshit they do, but average people can also choose to ignore that crap.

    At least when it comes to changing well established names. There’s other stuff that has real world consequences and that sucks, but we can at least hold the line in this case.

    Denali.

    Gulf of Mexico.

    From now until the end of time.

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        You’re referring to this Queen Charlotte?

        Yeah I mean she obviously wasn’t black or biracial in any sense of the word. Even if you simply take the speculation about her ancestry at face value, you’re talking about 15 generations removed, which equates to one of 32,768 ancestors at the same genetic distance, contributing 0.00305% of DNA apiece.

        What an absurd topic of discussion.

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          You’re referring to this Queen Charlotte?

          Yeah I mean she obviously wasn’t black or biracial in any sense of the word. Even if you simply take the speculation about her ancestry at face value, you’re talking about 15 generations removed, which equates to one of 32,768 ancestors at the same genetic distance, contributing 0.00305% of DNA apiece.

          What an absurd topic of discussion

          It’s weird how we got from renaming geographical areas to some tirade about ancestry and racism and somehow I’m at fault.

          Were you in the same discussion as I was reading? Is this how you discuss geography ?

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            It’s weird how you asked me a question and immediately pivoted to some tirade about racism when I answered, without clarifying whatsoever. Thanks for nothing.

            I literally googled (via duckduckgo) queen Charlotte and that was every single result on the first page. Then I looked at Wikipedia for 30 seconds and responded. Apparently math = racism? Nice.

            I naturally assumed you were talking about altering historical facts to suit a contemporary narrative. But I clearly gave you too much credit, I’ll avoid making that mistake again.

            Edit: aha, you were referring to this

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haida_Gwaii

            Pretty obscure reference, but my fault for assuming. Instead of ignoring you like everyone else who had no idea what the hell you were talking about, I tried to roll with it and give you a response. You may want to refer to them as the Queen Charlotte Islands going forward…