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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by shadowgovt on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:13PM (#30662610)
It feels like taking multiple complex overlapping causes and tossing one word on top of them is the opposite of dealing with complexity.

When we debug, do we tell other engineers that we're solving a "software problem," or do we use qualifiers?

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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by zozbot234 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:17PM (#30662644)
On the contrary, having multiple levels of description is a key tool in dealing with complexity. You can always provide more information about the actual mix of overlapping causes pertaining to any given case, but that should come after a broader description is provided to frame the overall context.
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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by shadowgovt on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:28PM (#30662797)
"Software problem" is too broad. If software engineers are working on it, of course it's a software problem.

Analogously, the point the article appears to make is that if humans are involved in a civil war, of course there are ethnic tensions.

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