Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by lcrz on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:50AM
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Are you sure about that though? They didn't publish anything about their internal decision making. It is an assumption that they didn't talk to any person of color. The idea of using so called neutral terms is not new: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3243656.stm
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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by gebruikersnaam on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:35AM
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See my other comment, the author says the change didn't involve the black developer community. I have no knowledge either way, just emphasizing their point.
Sure. I'm just calling their point into question because I see a lot of people of color that are actively engaged in the evolution of language in the context of slavery. The Rijksmuseum in The Nederlands has changed most occurrences of 'slave' to 'enslaved person' and trying to find out the actual name of the person depicted, among other things. The commission that was responsible for this change was headed by a person of color[0]. This isn't a movement that we are only seeing in Silicon Valley.
[0]: https://www.parool.nl/ps/hoofd-geschiedenis-rijksmuseum-ik-w...