original sin

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The projects never were built, but many Latinos considered the destruction of the neighborhoods and removal of the residents as something of the Dodgers’ original sin and vowed never to set foot inside Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times

“Parade” understands that America’s original sin — slavery and the economic apparatus that sanctioned the dehumanization of groups deemed as “other” — can’t be divorced from Leo’s story.

From Los Angeles Times

This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.

From Salon

Times Festival of Books, ‘Wicked’ director Jon M. Chu said the entertainment industry moved on too quickly from generative AI’s ‘original sin’ of gathering training data.

From Los Angeles Times

But Chu said he believes the entertainment industry has been too lax about tech companies’ ethically questionable training methods since the advent of generative AI, calling the unauthorized use of Hollywood creations an “original sin.”

From Los Angeles Times