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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Zero999:
I'd love to start some sort of anti-woke/PC/censorship campaign, but my greatest fear would be it being hihacked by the far-right groups such as the English Defence League and KKK. There needs to be a strong, sensible, centrist group to deal with this idiots.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: nuclearcat on July 22, 2020, 09:55:23 am ---Another thing, guess what will be painful for the company. Lose 0.1% of hysterical guys who are constantly in conflict with everyone around them, demand to change everything for their stupid ideas, or lose 0.1% of real talents, enthusiasts who is calm, but its enough for them, and they decide of this stop, or they will find a more peaceful place.
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Companies won't even lose the 0.1% of hysterical SJW customers because, and I know this is a radical concept, they don't have to say a word about any social or political issues, and no one will think less of any company for doing that.
Did any of the companies involved in this have to say anything or take a position? No, they didn't. I greatly doubt you'd find a single example of where a single SJW demanded that Company X share there position on this issue. They did it entirely voluntarily :palm:
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 22, 2020, 10:21:13 am ---I'd love to start some sort of anti-woke/PC/censorship campaign, but my greatest fear would be it being hihacked by the far-right groups such as the English Defence League and KKK. There needs to be a strong, sensible, centrist group to deal with this idiots.
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Ridicule often works wonders.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 22, 2020, 04:05:57 am ---
--- Quote --- if the silent majority is clearly against
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How do you know they're against if they're silent?
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More likely - they clearly don't care! :D
As always, it is best to just wait this one out until it dies from natural causes...
PlainName:
Not obviously electronics related but shows just how sensitive this has become:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53497347
--- Quote ---On Monday, US DJ The Black Madonna announced she would go by the name The Blessed Madonna after a petition was launched for her to change it.
The producer, whose real name is Marea Stamper, revealed on Twitter that her chosen name was "a reflection of my family's lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a specific kind of European icon of the Virgin Mary which is dark in hue".
However, she added she "should have listened harder to other perspectives".
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So nothing whatever to do with race but she had to change it anyway.
Also:
--- Quote ---Chart-topping US country-pop group Lady Antebellum changed to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.
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Eh? Had to look that one up:
--- Quote ---adjective [attributive] occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the US Civil War: the conventions of the antebellum South.
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"Don't mention the war!" That's a rather tenuous connection, and the origin is apparently "mid 19th century: from Latin, from ante ‘before’ and bellum ‘war’, so any connection to slavery or race, no matter how remote or misguided, is now fair game.
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