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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Nominal Animal:
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--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 29, 2020, 04:52:45 pm ---The next time someone brings crackers to the coffee room, I'll throw up a worldwide shitstorm for making me feel offended. Fair enough?
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Instead, I'd give you a non-offensive, present. Such as..
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;D
That's exactly what makes this a neverending swamp. I'd love for those who have better terms just start using them, showing a good example, instead of "you stop using these terms, or we ban you, and ruin your life". (I definitely believe having ones contributions discarded or ignored because of technically correct but socially insensitive terms, banning and ruining ones life.)
Even though we ostensibly live in an information society, all the bulk channels ("mainstream media") seem to have strict filters on things they let pass through.
I miss the times when we still had actual journalism, and reporters reported events, instead of spinning narratives and considering themselves to be the Guardians of Information Proper for General Consumption and Responsible for Correct Opinion Shaping. Oh, the examples I could give from recent events in Finland...
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Ones' race can't be "fluid" too?
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on July 29, 2020, 08:10:16 pm ---Ones' race can't be "fluid" too?
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Like Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (Johnny Otis) in the 1950s? CNN.
SilverSolder:
I'm just off a conf call related to work, where a lot of time was spent preparing a review presentation in such a way as to not offend anyone (i.e. no implicit criticism of any team... sales, engineering, support, IT, all had to look good no matter what). I pointed out that if we don't flag up any problems to senior management, how can we show we improved anything at the next review and be eligible for any bonus? - That focused minds wonderfully and realism started to infuse the presentation in short order. It turned out that it was perfectly possible to discuss problems without being directly offensive to anyone, after all! :D
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on July 29, 2020, 08:10:16 pm ---Ones' race can't be "fluid" too?
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In the apartheid days in South Africa, there were strict rules about who could live in what neighbourhood/township depending on classification along racial lines. Of course, humans being humans, sometimes there would be love affairs that straddled these lines. No problem... the person from the lesser township could be reassessed and reclassified to fit into the "white" area, after sufficient amounts of paperwork!
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