Yeah, for whatever its worth, my apologies for that part, but clearly I didn’t write this, it comes from the old Xerox days before the internet was even a public thing.
That is actually incorrect. This document was transcribed by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software around 20 years ago, and had since sat in one of my old files folders for about 2 decades.
I saw the recent old scanned post from 1982 yesterday regarding the 97 year old lady that was thankful for the gifted transistor radio. I found it funny of course, and it reminded me that I had this old scanned letter, along with the transcription, sitting somewhere in an old files folder.
Sorry I didn’t bother nitpicking and proofreading every last word before I posted it, I just remembered ‘hey, I have an old funny document, where the fuck did I store it?’
It was only after I finally found and posted it that I went back to finally read over it again, and of course by then every other commenter here started losing their shit over one word in the middle of a large word salad that unfortunately happens to be offensive, which was originally typed before I was even born.
TL;DR - No, I was not aware that derogatory word was present in the original image, I had simply forgot after 20 years. It’s not the end of the world my dude, but at least Lemmy’s filters automatically removed it from the transcribed version.
Utah, but considering how often people will grab memes from Tumblr or whatever will swear words censored out, you could have taken the literally 5 seconds to do the same.
We don’t need to let the hate and racism of the past occupy our present any more than it already does. Be the change you want to see in the world, some old racist once said.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, for whatever its worth, my apologies for that part, but clearly I didn’t write this, it comes from the old Xerox days before the internet was even a public thing.
db2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lol nobody would think it’s yours, don’t worry. That’s some shit a “greatest generation” parent would tell their teenage boomer kid and then cackle.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ok but you did post it knowing the word was in there
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is actually incorrect. This document was transcribed by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software around 20 years ago, and had since sat in one of my old files folders for about 2 decades.
I saw the recent old scanned post from 1982 yesterday regarding the 97 year old lady that was thankful for the gifted transistor radio. I found it funny of course, and it reminded me that I had this old scanned letter, along with the transcription, sitting somewhere in an old files folder.
Sorry I didn’t bother nitpicking and proofreading every last word before I posted it, I just remembered ‘hey, I have an old funny document, where the fuck did I store it?’
It was only after I finally found and posted it that I went back to finally read over it again, and of course by then every other commenter here started losing their shit over one word in the middle of a large word salad that unfortunately happens to be offensive, which was originally typed before I was even born.
TL;DR - No, I was not aware that derogatory word was present in the original image, I had simply forgot after 20 years. It’s not the end of the world my dude, but at least Lemmy’s filters automatically removed it from the transcribed version.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I saw the other comment right before I saw this response. Sorry I wasn’t psychic and knew you didn’t bother to read things you post.
It’s a funny post, despite the slur.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Utah, but considering how often people will grab memes from Tumblr or whatever will swear words censored out, you could have taken the literally 5 seconds to do the same.
We don’t need to let the hate and racism of the past occupy our present any more than it already does. Be the change you want to see in the world, some old racist once said.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fun fact: The pixels can’t hurt you.
If the scanned image upsets you, well at least Lemmy filtered the bad word out of the OCR transcribed text.
Try to laugh once in a while, it helps relieves stress.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Yeah, see, my life is full of joy. Seeing a racial slur casually used doesn’t add to that joy at all.
If not laughing at a racial slur makes me somehow trouble, then hey, I guess I’m the worst.