Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines

Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by mercer on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:25PM (#23803310)

Your comment basically boils down to 'how dare others request empathy'. I find that childish. How do you 'know' for a fact that their concerns are 'cheap gestures' or 'empty' or 'mockery'? And if you don't know this for sure, and accommodating is cheap, why not? Making a big deal of it strikes me as immature.

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by blub on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:33PM (#23803951)

I have no idea what recipe you used to boil my comment but I wrote it like I meant it, so address it like that.

For one I meant that the gestures are literally cheap: it costs almost nothing to send a tweet or invent some guidelines.

They're also empty because they don't have any effect in the real world.

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by mercer on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:54PM (#23804143)

How don't comments or tweets have an effect in the real world considering this 'cancel culture' hubbub and all? apparently you can get fired for tweets?

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Re:Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines by blub on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:10PM (#23805463)

Assuming that the goal was to reduce discrimination and racism, getting random people fired does not help achieve the goal and hence has no effect.

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