If Affleck seriously wanted to off-load that property and not look like a privileged jackass, he could sell it to a historical preservation society that works to bring to light the real history of plantations (which are brutal locations of forced labor and genocide).
He could even donate the property to such a group instead, which would garner him more public kudos and a huge tax break.
But he won’t… he’ll just whinge about getting attacked for owning a literal replica of a plantation on the location of an actual one…
The man calling me was a product manager from Sanas, a Silicon Valley startup that’s building real-time voice-altering technology that aims to help call center workers around the world sound like westerners. It’s an idea that calls to mind the 2018 dark comedy film Sorry to Bother You, in which Cassius, a Black man hired to be a telemarketer, is advised by an older colleague to “use your white voice”. The idea is that mimicking the accent will smooth interactions with customers, “like being pulled over by the police”, the older worker says. In the film, Cassius quickly acquires a “white voice”, and his sales numbers shoot up, leaving an uncomfortable feeling.
Accents are a constant hurdle for millions of call center workers, especially in countries like the Philippines and India, where an entire “accent neutralization” industry tries to train workers to sound more like the western customers they’re calling – often unsuccessfully.
As reported in SFGate this week, Sanas hopes its technology can provide a shortcut. Using data about the sounds of different accents and how they correspond to each other, Sanas’s AI engine can transform a speaker’s accent into what passes for another one – and right now, the focus is on making non-Americans sound like white Americans.
People often assume that if they have a hard time understanding someone else’s accent, the other person won’t understand them. If they are calling with a problem, they don’t know if the issue will take longer to resolve if they can’t be understood. They start out more stressed by feeling like the person they are talking to won’t understand them, or that them won’t understand the other person. There is plenty of racism and classism at work here. If/when they start using real-time translation software, how do they choose which accent to use in each language?
On the other hand, scammers from call centers in India could use this tech to even more egregiously fool people into giving them cash.
Suburban, middle-class white people do the opposite: dress down to help negotiate a lower price.
And show up with an attitude that you’re doing the dealership a favor by choosing to shop there.
Ben Shapiro thinks he’s in the club 
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He is - until he’s not useful.
The inevitable fate of the kapo.
Just like Milo.
Black folks shouldn’t patronize Chick Fil A anyway; anyone who actively hates the LGBQT+ community likely isn’t too fond of us, either…
Yep. Hate never stops at one group. Anyone comfortable with that kind of denial of humanity is gonna deny it to all kinds of people.
Sometimes when I am sick I crave Chick-fil-A. The last time I found myself whining to my spouse “the chicken is delicious but evil!” He offered to buy me evil chicken but I declined
