Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
by hrktb on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:07AM
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Similar things happen all the time [0]
An interesting thinking angle to this often “why was it fine before ?”
Was it because nobody knew about that name/word in the first place ?
Was there always incoming requests for change but those were just ignored as baseless, and as the social context changed discarding them is not as easy anymore ?
Was it because the majority of users weren’t offended, but the user base changed enough that offended people’s voices go louder ?
An interesting thinking angle to this often “why was it fine before ?”
Was it because nobody knew about that name/word in the first place ?
Was there always incoming requests for change but those were just ignored as baseless, and as the social context changed discarding them is not as easy anymore ?
Was it because the majority of users weren’t offended, but the user base changed enough that offended people’s voices go louder ?
I find a lot of seemingly frivolous or petty word changes have a wider context that are not as simple as it looks on the surface. [0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/1053