Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien...
by nisse72 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:38PM
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There is a Swedish expression: nobody is named, and nobody is forgotten.
Usually you hear it in a workplace setting when people (often, a subset of the correct group) are being acknowleged for an acheivement of some kind.
As soon as you try to enumerate all of those groups you will undoubtedly forget someone, who will then take offense at the omission. So the saying is a reminder to not single out anyone.
A bit like the bathroom I saw in a coffee shop that listed all the different kinds of people that were acceptable to use the single occupancy one toilet one sink room. Trying too hard to be inclusive can be an insult to the actual issues at hand.