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> As long as the Left is worrying about whether the chatbots are racist, people won’t pay attention to the net effect of these tools.

It's by design. A country obsessed with racial politics has little time for the politics of anything else.

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Exactly. What a coincidence that the media's obsession with race and gender inequalities began right after Occupy Wall Street.

As I recall, it began right after the George Floyd murder. It was clearly time for things to change, and the media latched onto that.

I think it was amplified in 2020. I hear many cite 2015 as the year things got woke. Terms like "preferred pronoun" started entering the mainstream around 2015, one year after GamerGate (not that that was the cause).

Picking a starting point is always going to be somewhat arbitrary, but the moment it became mainstream was probably when Hillary Clinton won the nomination in 2016 by explicitly moving away from economic issues:

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line...

When were you born? Gender and race were pretty hot topics in the 1960s, you might have missed that.

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