The Federal Communications Commission is investigating ABC and its parent company Disney over its diversity, equity and inclusion actions, FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced Friday.
In a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, Carr wrote that he wants “to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”
surely they meant to use a different word. like insidious?
also, i’m assuming this investigation is about being noisy and superficially punitive, and not truly interfering with the fundamental access to airwaves and public resources of one of the largest capital formations on earth.
forsooth, nullius marked to dispatch the indicated targeting “poetry” hither
mote thou shalt thole unto “speaking plainly” whence stand high in the fucking newspaper
I was mostly just making a not very good joke but now I’m thinking about it more and maybe it doesn’t apply to “invidious” but there is a point where a word is used so little and known by so few speakers of a language that everyone would agree it’s not a part of the language anymore, so what is that point?
No one would say “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon” is English. But at one point it was, and then eventually English moved on enough that people looked at that and didn’t recognize it. How few English speakers have to recognize the meaning of “inviduous” before it’s not really considered a word in contemporary English?
nah, it totally applies to invidious in this instance. i wouldn’t use uncommon/archaic words to communicate to a broad audience in a press release about public policy. it defeats the point.
i am certain this usage originated with some Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. type bozo dictating the press release, meaning to say “insidious”, but once it passed spell check / could be shoehorned in, they just went with it because what assistant in this shitshow wants to question the unqualified genius of any of these assholes.
I thought it was surely a spellcheck error. It’s not.
“Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr said in an interview with Bloomberg last week.
surely they meant to use a different word. like insidious?
also, i’m assuming this investigation is about being noisy and superficially punitive, and not truly interfering with the fundamental access to airwaves and public resources of one of the largest capital formations on earth.
Today I learned that invidious is a word and it would fit with the message.
I’ll be honest I kinda think that word falls under “if few enough speakers of a language know a word is it really a word in that language?”
If you said the word invidious to the majority of English speakers they would look at you confused. That sounds like it’s not an English word to me.
That’s a shame. We should educate more people about a certain YouTube frontend
I think if you kept applying this reasoning poetry as a medium would just die.
forsooth, nullius marked to dispatch the indicated targeting “poetry” hither
mote thou shalt thole unto “speaking plainly” whence stand high in the fucking newspaper
skill issue
I was mostly just making a not very good joke but now I’m thinking about it more and maybe it doesn’t apply to “invidious” but there is a point where a word is used so little and known by so few speakers of a language that everyone would agree it’s not a part of the language anymore, so what is that point?
No one would say “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon” is English. But at one point it was, and then eventually English moved on enough that people looked at that and didn’t recognize it. How few English speakers have to recognize the meaning of “inviduous” before it’s not really considered a word in contemporary English?
nah, it totally applies to invidious in this instance. i wouldn’t use uncommon/archaic words to communicate to a broad audience in a press release about public policy. it defeats the point.
i am certain this usage originated with some Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. type bozo dictating the press release, meaning to say “insidious”, but once it passed spell check / could be shoehorned in, they just went with it because what assistant in this shitshow wants to question the unqualified genius of any of these assholes.
the average english speaker doesn’t know half the words of the english language
I thought it was surely a spellcheck error. It’s not.
Yeah, isn’t that a pirate site or something?
It’s a youtube condom
thinkin about that Nvidia stock