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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
maginnovision:
My only issue with y'all is that even before the newspeak regulations it was EVERYWHERE on twitter. I hate twitter so I have to hate y'all. Nothing is more annoying (to me) than some random new yorker saying y'all.
james_s:
Apparently now the "OK" hand signal signifies white suppremacy? :-//
https://komonews.com/news/local/osp-says-troopers-hand-signal-at-salem-protest-wasnt-racist
You can't make this stuff up. Do people have any idea how ridiculous it all sounds to any rational person? I'm afraid I will never understand how so many people cannot comprehend that words simply convey a message and trying to ban words will never have the effect they seek. A new word or symbol can be assigned to the offensive message almost instantly while everyone else is still scrambling to come up with a new politically correct term for the last word that the twitter mob suddenly decided was offensive.
bd139:
I’m at the point where I’m going to buy some popcorn for when people have had enough of this shit and smack it back to reality.
0culus:
It's clear that all this nonsense is doing is accomplishing nothing but dividing people further from each other, no matter how much touchy-feely 'inclusiveness' is preached. The people pushing this are acting like a bunch of toddlers who aren't getting their way. Whatever happened to just being an adult? :palm:
daqq:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2020, 11:08:58 am ---"Grandfathered" != "legacy", in many walks of life.
--- End quote ---
That's just one example. Another example - blacklist. A summary term for entities/places/people/devices/brands that should be denied/avoided/checked with extra care/blocked... Not half of the use cases are covered by the word denylist. There's a restaurant blacklist. What's the newterm for that? Avoidlist? Great, instead of one summary term we get 10 terms. Whooptydoo. Finally we have defeated racism.
Did anyone complain? How does being triggered by a generic industry term even work? Do the affected parties just drop in the middle of a meeting because someone said 'blacklist' and start crying? I'm having a tough time visualizing a person who would actually have these sorts of issues in real life.
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