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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by XorNot on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:14PM (#23736341)
Slavery is with us today in too many parts of the world. American chattel slavery was ~3 human lifetimes ago (for long enough lived humans).

I am completely okay with removing words which imply domination and subjugation without moral judgement from day to day vocabularly.

Slavery is a horrific, barbaric practice, and if the word only ever comes up in one context with all the moral and emotional weight that should carry, then that's an improvement.

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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by bitL on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:00AM (#23736506)
Are Slavic nations going to be renamed?
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by XorNot on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:26AM (#23738473)
Maybe go lookup the entymology of "slavic" and then consider how stupid your hot take makes you look.
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by bitL on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:59PM (#23740100)
It's not about their etymology, it's about the origin of the word "slave" in English language that stems from Slav:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/slave

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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by XorNot on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:59PM (#23742457)
And so if you think carefully about the fact it's a term used to refer to a group of people who might be the only ones who's opinion on whether they're okay with it matters, but also how it's not a commonly used programming term...
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by bitL on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:15PM (#23742997)
I mean it must be pretty awful for Slavic people to realize that "slave" comes from their name in English/Latin and they are by default viewed in a biased way. Similarly how Slovenes and the word "slovenly" go along.
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by foogazi on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:29AM (#23736592)
They have legacy status
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by loopz on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:52AM (#23736882)
So by removing the word slave, how are we to be able to correct this modern day injustice?
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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by bitL on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:01AM (#23737067)
We can replace the word slave by "continuously guided workforce/population". Slave masters could be then just "managers of continuously guided workforce". Slave markets would be "continuously guided workforce exchanges" etc.

Erm, it's probably best if the word "slave" kept its highly negative and polarized meaning...

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