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If you know anything about the history of Oompa Loompas in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, these types of "humoristic" alert messages come across as ignorant and narrow-minded.

This is from @revue but they are not alone in "Oompa-jokes".

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«In the first edition of Charlie (1964), the Oompa-Loompas are black pygmies who Wonka imports from “the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle” and enslaves in his factory.»

theconversation.com/from-pygmies-t…

Sensitivity reading should ideally be made part of the design process.

bookmachine.org/2019/01/15/sen…

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↪ Replying to @ichianna

@ichianna Hehe, that’s exactly the thought I wanted to spark. 😊 I actually do believe VR can do wonders for rehab purposes. Sadly, I see it going the other way for prisons because unlimited virtual space means potential savings in physical space.

@ichianna Spending time in a virtual space embodied as the person you harmed… I am intrigued by these types of experiments. bigthink.com/health/gender-…

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.@thecontinent_ Your quiz question number six reads "Only two people from Africa have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while they were president. Who are they?"

But there are three: Anwar al-Sadat, FW de Klerk and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Looking at the answers you provide, it would appear you missed Africa's first democratically elected female president (serving 2006-2018), who was awarded the prize in 2011.

I do hope you fix the answer sheet and issue a correction in the next issue. @thecontinent_

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