The April Fools blog on Saturday returned to familiar ground. I'm a little uncomfortable with one of the jokes, which I softened in a later edit. The GPS Not In 88 Electronic Recycler acronym was cringeworthy.
But in backing away, I'm also caving in to the neutering of nuance by political correctness. You see, by nature of my privilege, many say I cannot joke about certain things. Such as the white privilege of those who would criminalize used appliance repair.
Mark Twain's use of the n-word in Huckleberry Finn is still "controversial", at least among people whose IQs are either much higher or much lower than mine.
Essentially, the majority of human beings agree with me and not those who have claimed the mantle of "Steward". But the majority does not have the e-waste megaphone.
Ghana Fair Trade Recycling Album
The strict European definitions that place repair and reuse under "waste management" regulators was a reaction to a false statistic, which was perhaps created innocently but was funded with millions of dollars of Planned Obsolescence, Anti-Gray-Market, and Big Shred money. An obscene amount of money as compared with the number of dollars that ever went to the families of people whose photos among waste were used to pass the legislation and garner those donations.
