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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 skjoldr on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:46AM (#34067487)
Well the colonizers didn't know that Native Americans existed before landing in America, and look what happened. We must prevent any and all such occurrences in our interplanetary future by only using a non-specieist vocabulary.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by kamma4434 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:51PM (#34070447)
It’s so obvious that if colonizers had used inclusive language, everybody would have lived in peace. Though maybe labelling them ‘colonizers’ and not ‘welcome guests’ was only the first of a set of micro aggressions that precipitated the situation.
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