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| tom66:
Are we going to ban the term "coloured wire" in case it offends people who remember pre-civil-rights times when black people were called similar terms? |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 23, 2020, 07:51:40 am --- --- Quote from: pickle9000 on June 23, 2020, 06:11:13 am ---Wow what a topic. In any case I don't see anything here about education. For myself educating children about the subject would be far more useful. Hiding the words is like hiding the truth. The truth is often ugly but it is necessary to understand our mistakes and tendencies. --- End quote --- The terms Master and Slave are not ugly when applied to technology. Teach people that words can have multiple meanings when applied to different things and in different cultures, and that context and intent matter, they matters a lot. That's what you should be teaching teaching kids. --- End quote --- Precisely. It isn't a difficult concept, but some people can't seem to think about it that way. I showed my daughter that her name could be a swear word, given the "right" topic, sentence, and tone of voice. |
| SilverSolder:
As George Orwell warned us... --- Quote --- "[...] we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. [...] In private life most people are fairly realistic. When one is making out one’s weekly budget, two and two invariably make four. Politics, on the other hand, is a sort of sub-atomic or non-Euclidean world where it is quite easy for the part to be greater than the whole or for two objects to be in the same place simultaneously. Hence the contradictions and absurdities I have chronicled above, all finally traceable to a secret belief that one’s political opinions, unlike the weekly budget, will not have to be tested against solid reality." -- George Orwell --- End quote --- |
| wilfred:
I saw this article online today. Nestle will rebrand some lollies to align their values better. This will undoubtedly raise similarly divided passions. But I think COON cheese will get away without change since it was named after the inventor. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-23/nestle-red-skins-chicos-allens-lollies-rebrand-overtones/12384986 |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---But I think COON cheese will get away without change since it was named after the inventor. --- End quote --- The people kicking up a fuss won't know that, so it won't make any difference. What might is that they'll be too young to have come across the word in general usage before, so it won't act as a trigger. |
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