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Re:Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel by jasonwatkinspdx on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:05PM (#23813320)
How is this coddling anyone? And why are you viewing "these people" as somehow separate rather than just "us?"

Defunding the police is a simple to understand slogan that covers a lot of possibilities. Plenty of places have abolished their police and rebuilt from the ground up. When people use the slogan that's generally what they mean. Saying they literally expect there to be no police and everything is anarchy is a strawman position no one besides a couple bros in hoodies in seattle actually takes seriously.

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Re:Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel by concordDance on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:56AM (#23818268)
Being specially catered for sets you apart from the rest, promoting a damaging us vs them distinction.
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Re:Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel by TeaDrunk on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:46PM (#23813692)
Frankly, blacklist/whitelist is actually less clear than blocklist/allowlist in the most strict and rhetorical language. Similarly, master/slave is actually less clear than alternatives, because it implies single points of failure that technology has already resolved.

I don't actually have an opinion on the language change (I'm not black so how could I have an opinion on if it empowers black people?) but strictly speaking the rationale based on clarity isn't true.

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