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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 nkrisc on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:04AM (#34066827)
The “user” example surprised me because they suggested “client” as an alternative, which might unintentionally imply the person frequents prostitutes.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by colpabar on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:38AM (#34068332)
Whoa there pal, did you say "prostitute"? I think you mean "person who engages in sex work".
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by antihero on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:10PM (#34068818)
Also stupid because client has both a very different technological and semantic meaning.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by nkrisc on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:12PM (#34069818)
That was my point. Also I haven’t heard anyone use the word “user” to mean a drug addict since the 90s, I think.
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