Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave'

Re:Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms li... by therealdrag0 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:29AM (#23730345)

I’m left handed. Should I get offended at “sinister” or “gauche”?

Isn’t this like a simple lesson from children’s Harry Potter books? Why give words like “Voldemort” so much power. Words are just pointers for communication. the contextual intent isn’t what matters not what you read into it.

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Re:Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms li... by thereare5lights on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:48AM (#23737417)

Let me know when the police target you for being left handed

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Re:Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms li... by therealdrag0 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:06AM (#23739212)

And therein lies the distance between this effort and what we care about.

There’s real profiling and brutality going on and having word police ain’t gonna change that.

Dispute English’s effort to demonize me, no one has even noticed.

There’s real concrete nuts and bolts problems with policing, the laws, the justice system. Swapping out a few words is less than spitting on a fire.

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Re:Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms li... by thereare5lights on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:14AM (#23756857)

Ah yes, I've heard this before.

Let's not worry about this because there are much bigger problems to worry about. Never mind that those bigger problems are much harder to solve and these are quite simply and within reach.

Lol.

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