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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by viraptor on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:13AM (#23801566)
The amount of work here is completely incomparable to OP's example of changing few words. OP already mentioned "Without invoking slippery-slope arguments?"
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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by helixhelix on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:29PM (#23803347)
How is that slippery slope? Are you saying only some people have the right to express hurt?
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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by eaton on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:09PM (#23803659)
Technically not a slippery slope, just a false equivalency. Renaming a branch and rewriting a project in another language are in no way equivalent levels of effort, so comparing them based on the principle of "no skin off my back" the original poster articulated is disingenuous.

Saying that the two cases are not equivalent is a criticism of the level-of-effort comparison, not a criticism of a particular people-group's subjective suffering.

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by helixhelix on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:18PM (#23803749)
Oh so ending racism and homophobia in the real world takes too much effort so let's make other people CTRL+H some files instead? That's pitiful and an insult to people who try.
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