Microsoft has released a press release apologizing for having included a font in their Office product that includes a swastika symbol. They said the font came from a Japanese source. They are providing a program to remove the offending symbol.
So how are we to comunicate about evils without labels for them?
Microsoft has never in my experience done *anything* as enthusiastically and expediently as removing this symbol. The multinational corporation doth cooperate too hastily?
I have not been able to find the symbol. DSoes anyone have the Book Symbol 7 font in their MS Office? If yes I would appreciate a picture of the offending symbol (or the whole font. I would no teven be surprsied if the smybol was the Buddhist not the Nazi symbol (the two are "reversed", I believe). Nothing woiuld please me more than for a buddhist to accuse Microsoft of anti-Buddhist discrimination if the symbol they removed was not the Nazi one. Computer programmers and managers and entrepreueurs have sufficiently little "culture" in genreal that it is entirely plausible they mistook one symbol for the other.
Meanwhile,Edward Tufte has pulished a little pamphlet analyzing the negative effects of MS PowerPoint on persons' thinking.
Thank God political correctness came to the rescue of American capitalism when corporations began their substantive "race to the bottom" for American workers! Wit political corerctness, corporations can both "scr-w" the workers and at the same time prove how much they respect their dignity, etc.
\brad mccormick
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