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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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Kjelt:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 17, 2020, 05:34:11 pm ---I just don't get it. They don't seem like ugly words to me. I mean they are ugly words when used to describe a relationship between humans but that's not anything to do with their use in engineering. Does this boil down to a fundamental (wilful?) inability to understand context? People seem to obsess over words when it's the meaning they carry that we should be paying attention to. Context is everything.

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I agree completely and I am thinking ( a bit wrong I know) that the people that say they are offended by this don't have and never will have an engineering degree. Alfa and Gamma scientists that have nothing better to do than nitpick the dictionaries for words that might be offensive to those who will never even use them or be exposed to them.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: Ccandrews on June 17, 2020, 05:39:42 pm ---and the medieval crusades come to mind.

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The medieval crusades what? Because they came first to invade us. Eight centuries in Spain no more no less.
magic:
Crusades were fought to fend off slave raids, among other things.
Marco:

--- Quote from: tom66 on June 17, 2020, 02:28:24 pm ---Are we really saying a guy fleeing deserves to be shot?

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Ignoring what he deserves ... do cops deserve to come home in one piece?

It's part of the job only goes so far. The more violent situations a cop has to contend with, the more they will err on the side of their own safety. That's another reason why you can't really compare say UK cops to US cops as a lot of people are want to do, even ignoring the cultural differences for their criminals and the much smaller amount of guns they will run into.

Bayesian mathematics as always is not very politically correct.
vodka:

--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on June 17, 2020, 07:07:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ccandrews on June 17, 2020, 05:39:42 pm ---and the medieval crusades come to mind.

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The medieval crusades what? Because they came first to invade us. Eight centuries in Spain no more no less.

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Medina didn't belong to Roman Empire. What did we invade?
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