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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by zoklet-enjoyer on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:31PM (#34040871)
Right, these guys are really going balls to the wall with this insanity.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:37PM (#34040983)
Which ironically has nothing to do with human anatomy, but nobody bothered doing the research: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls_to_the_wall
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by throw0101c on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:23PM (#34044336)
And "balls-out" refers to locomotive centrifugal governor:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-out

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor

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