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>We are looking for folks that are interested in pushing beyond the status quo to change the way folks interact and use search. I must have missed the memo on

by getoj 4y ago

>We are looking for folks that are interested in pushing beyond the status quo to change the way folks interact and use search. I must have missed the memo on this, but when did “people” become an unacceptable word in corporate communications?

doctor_eval 4y ago
When Human Resources became a thing.
Y_Y 4y ago
It's discriminatory against unpersons
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
  And me. I self-identify as a crustacean.
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Ever since the finding of uncleftish beholding.
LastTrain 4y ago
Folks is a synonym for people. You’re welcome.
- poszlem 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - karaokeyoga 4y ago
    It can also be a way of saying "people" with a more casual tone. I've used it for years ("Hi folks" sounds better than "Hi people" to me).
    - mixmastamyk 4y ago
      Me too, definitely not woke. "That's all, folks."
  - deleted 4y ago
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kilroy123 4y ago
I think it's so we don't offend some of the lizard "folks" who work in tech with us.
kube-system 4y ago
238 job postings at Yahoo use the word "people" 3 use the word "folks"
poszlem 4y ago
This makes sense when you understand that "the woke" use language to separate the in-group from the out-group. "Folks" is not a new word, but an old one that has been reclaimed by social justice, queer and academic communities. Many other words that have been redefined or repurposed now form a sub-language of English used to distinguish "the woke" from "the non-woke". This distinction is often unconscious and absorbed through immersion in social justice circles, similar to how luxury beliefs (such as "defund the police," "trans women are women," etc https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-status-symbol-for-rich-americans/ https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...) are absorbed. You have to use that kind of language to signal your belonging to the "elites", and the HR departments that usually write job ads or staff Twitter accounts are full of those type of people. From that it's just propagated everywhere else. Edit: Congratulation HN on your brilliant policy that prevents me from responding to any of the comments under my post (looks like I got throttled, so editing the post is the only thing I can now do).
- giantrobot 4y ago
  What in the fuck is this word salad?
  - poszlem 4y ago
    I am sorry, I am not a native English speaker, do you have a hard time understanding any particular part of what I wrote? I am happy to expand. Edit: Congratulation HN on your brilliant policy that prevents me from responding to any of the comments under my post (looks like I got throttled, so editing the post is the only thing I can now do). "So what often happens in political discussions on HN is 1) a person, such as yourself, posts dissenting views in response to several messages, 2) those messages are heavily downvoted by a brigade of users, 3) the person's account is rate-limited or shadowbanned, 4) the brigade freely posts comments against the dissenter because, being many users, each only posting one or two messages, and being of the censorious brigade (the dissenters usually oppose censorship and don't downvote for disagreement--see how even one GitHub user couldn't resist drive-by down-thumbing your comment), their comments don't get downvoted, so they don't get rate-limited. The end result is, very predictably, a form of mob censorship. And since HN approves of downvoting for disagreement, nothing is done to stop it." https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues/21#issuecomment-747933939 https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...
andirk 4y ago
"We tortured some folks" [0] sounds better than "your tax dollars went to extrajudicial torture of human beings". [0] The quote is either Bush, Jr. or Obama.
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
I actually like seeing "folks" come back in regular use. Folks is the indigenous Anglo-Saxon word (cognate German "volk") vs the Romance language "people" and "person". It sounds less snooty or intellectual. It's simple and clean. Oh... And I can't for the life of me imagine how it could be interpreted as more "woke". In fact here in Canada it's kind of a phrase used more by the "right" than the "left"; (it's actually a source of much humour how much this word is overused by Ontario's right wing hockey enforcer barely high school educated 'populist' premier) https://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/doug-ford-gets/ https://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/doug-ford-gets/

by getoj 4y ago

doctor_eval 4y ago

When Human Resources became a thing.

Y_Y 4y ago

It's discriminatory against unpersons

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
And me. I self-identify as a crustacean.

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

Ever since the finding of uncleftish beholding.

LastTrain 4y ago

Folks is a synonym for people. You’re welcome.

poszlem 4y ago
[flagged]
- karaokeyoga 4y ago
  It can also be a way of saying "people" with a more casual tone. I've used it for years ("Hi folks" sounds better than "Hi people" to me).
  - mixmastamyk 4y ago
    Me too, definitely not woke. "That's all, folks."
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]

kilroy123 4y ago

I think it's so we don't offend some of the lizard "folks" who work in tech with us.

kube-system 4y ago

238 job postings at Yahoo use the word "people" 3 use the word "folks"

poszlem 4y ago

This makes sense when you understand that "the woke" use language to separate the in-group from the out-group. "Folks" is not a new word, but an old one that has been reclaimed by social justice, queer and academic communities. Many other words that have been redefined or repurposed now form a sub-language of English used to distinguish "the woke" from "the non-woke". This distinction is often unconscious and absorbed through immersion in social justice circles, similar to how luxury beliefs (such as "defund the police," "trans women are women," etc https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-status-symbol-for-rich-americans/ https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...) are absorbed. You have to use that kind of language to signal your belonging to the "elites", and the HR departments that usually write job ads or staff Twitter accounts are full of those type of people. From that it's just propagated everywhere else. Edit: Congratulation HN on your brilliant policy that prevents me from responding to any of the comments under my post (looks like I got throttled, so editing the post is the only thing I can now do).

giantrobot 4y ago
What in the fuck is this word salad?
- poszlem 4y ago
  I am sorry, I am not a native English speaker, do you have a hard time understanding any particular part of what I wrote? I am happy to expand. Edit: Congratulation HN on your brilliant policy that prevents me from responding to any of the comments under my post (looks like I got throttled, so editing the post is the only thing I can now do). "So what often happens in political discussions on HN is 1) a person, such as yourself, posts dissenting views in response to several messages, 2) those messages are heavily downvoted by a brigade of users, 3) the person's account is rate-limited or shadowbanned, 4) the brigade freely posts comments against the dissenter because, being many users, each only posting one or two messages, and being of the censorious brigade (the dissenters usually oppose censorship and don't downvote for disagreement--see how even one GitHub user couldn't resist drive-by down-thumbing your comment), their comments don't get downvoted, so they don't get rate-limited. The end result is, very predictably, a form of mob censorship. And since HN approves of downvoting for disagreement, nothing is done to stop it." https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues/21#issuecomment-747933939 https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

andirk 4y ago

"We tortured some folks" [0] sounds better than "your tax dollars went to extrajudicial torture of human beings". [0] The quote is either Bush, Jr. or Obama.

cmrdporcupine 4y ago

I actually like seeing "folks" come back in regular use. Folks is the indigenous Anglo-Saxon word (cognate German "volk") vs the Romance language "people" and "person". It sounds less snooty or intellectual. It's simple and clean. Oh... And I can't for the life of me imagine how it could be interpreted as more "woke". In fact here in Canada it's kind of a phrase used more by the "right" than the "left"; (it's actually a source of much humour how much this word is overused by Ontario's right wing hockey enforcer barely high school educated 'populist' premier) https://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/doug-ford-gets/ https://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/doug-ford-gets/