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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by curiousgal on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:42AM (#23801768)
The word Abd in Arabic means slave/servant [0], so should we ask anyone named Abdullah (God's slave) to change their name because it has the word slave in it? It's not about using a word casually, it's about using it in an irrelevant context.

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_(Arabic)

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by chrismorgan on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:37PM (#23803410)
Similarly the very common surname Das in India and nearby countries, meaning slave or servant. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_(surname) says servant, but Hindi and Bengali speakers I know of would translate दास or দাস as slave more than servant.)

I’m now amusing myself by imagining someone requesting that Das Keyboard rename their product…

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by XorNot on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:44AM (#23802152)
Applying the term "slave" to yourself is pretty obviously quite different to building a construct and declaring something or someone else to be a slave.

In much the same way that the n-word is most definitely not a term for people with my ethnic background to use, given it's history.

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by curiousgal on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:51AM (#23802590)
I know foreign culture and all but no one ever chooses their birthname.
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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by XorNot on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:58PM (#23806461)
They do choose whether they keep using it though.
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