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CW: racism, bigotry
#TIL but not surprised that the Dewey Decimal Classification, like many old things, is racist and bigoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
On #literature: “literature in European languages takes the entire range from 810 through 889, while the entire rest of the world's literature is relegated to the 890s”.
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