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Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by empath75 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:18PM (#23736355)
> The thing is no one actually associates the modern use of the term with this history.

This is plainly false.

Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by lostapathy on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:59PM (#23736498)
Perhaps not “no one” but it’s a very, very small group. If you’re willing to cater to a small enough pool of potential offended people, well, you can find someone offended by just about anything. Maybe we need to ban language?
Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by empath75 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:24AM (#23736578)
It’s amazing how much people will argue about precise programming terminology here and then anything about race is suddenly “it’s just words who cares?”
Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by loopz on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:46AM (#23736866)
Because it's the wrong solution. No words should be banned. Speech and behaviour need moderation, and there are no perfect hard rules. Offensive people need to be disciplined. Stop trying the easy way out that accomplishes only to limit freedom of speech.
Re:Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we... by u801e on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:25AM (#23736583)
The term gay has changed in meaning over the last 50 years. The Flintstones opening sequence uses the phrase "we'll have a gay old time" which obviously doesn't fit the modern definition. Do people still commonly consider the phrase "a gay old time" as equivalent to an enjoyable time?

Even wiktionary[1] considers it a dated phrase.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gay_old_time