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How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com)
Reader mirandakatz writes: Typography is having a bit of a moment: Suddenly, tons of people who don't work in design have all sorts of opinions about it, and are taking every opportunity to point out poor font choices and smaller design elements. But they're missing the bigger picture. As Medium designer Ben Hersh writes at Backchannel, typography isn't just catchy visuals: It can also be dangerous. As Hersh writes, 'Typography can silently influence: It can signify dangerous ideas, normalize dictatorships, and sever broken nations. In some cases it may be a matter of life and death. And it can do this as powerfully as the words it depicts.' Don't believe him? He's got ample visual examples to prove it.
Use the SJW-approved typefaces or your Hitler.
Oh, and since Fraktur was both enforced by the Nazis and banned by the Nazis, you are an evil part the patriarchy that needs to be purged in the name of enlightened SJW "inclusion" if you use it or if you don't use it.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
There is nothing overblown or dramatized about this article, nothing at all. I mean it's vaguely interesting but seems to miss the forest for the trees and blathering about colonialism isn't doing it any favors either.
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This article is just trashy, nothing to see here. So, everything with an old English/German font means "Nazi" now, does it? It couldn't possibly just reflect medieval culture, or Frankenstein, or Dracula, or harken back to any number of other things more mundane in the past several hundred years. Nope, it's Hitler. I guess, if you're really that shallow.
But nothing is more telling of the actual SJ undercurrent and intent of this article than these last few paragraphs, strangely comparing Clinton's and Trump's campaign logos:
I guess even fonts offend these people now. They're losing their minds.
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Odd, because I've noticed a correlation between people who complain about that font and douchitude. Seriously, you're getting up in arms about a font not because it's difficult to read but because it doesn't look "professional"? It's easy to read, and it looks nice, who cares beyond that?
"The hoi polloi" is like saying "the La Brea tar pits" or "The big Rio Grande river".
Merriam Webster: "Even though hoi itself means "the", in English we almost always say "the hoi polloi". Or Oxford Dictionaries: "This knowledge has led some traditionalists to insist that hoi polloi should not be used in English with the, since that would be to state the word the twice. Such arguments miss the point: once established in English, expressions such as hoi polloi are treated as a fixed unit and are subject to the rules and conventions of English." Or even the venerable OED itself: "In English use normally preceded by the def. article even though hoi means ‘the’."
It's interesting that you saw a paragraph about intellectual elites finding things by which they can look down upon others, and your response is to post something that makes you appear intellectual and discriminating, but has no basis in reality.