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by hfsh 196 days ago
This clippy white-washing is annoying as hell. Just like clipppy was.
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100% this. Clippy was killed by Microsoft for a reason: it was a UI gimmick. The team that made it just wanted to show actions were in-progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YObNc2jbD0k

Wait is whitewashing now synonymous with “washing something bad to make it look good”?? Seems pretty racist to me to use it that way.
Whitewashing isn’t limited to the context you think it is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whitewash