Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by gorwell on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#34068091)

This is why we should have rejected changing master to main. No one was offended by that in the first place! They created the problem and negative association entirely out of thin air.

But we accepted it, updated our tooling, retrained our muscle memory from git checkout master to git checkout main to appease them. We gave them a taste of power and they're going to keep exercising it until meeting sufficient resistance.

Enough people need to call it out and say No. You do not get to dictate and colonize the language from the top down.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by throw__away7391 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:30AM (#34068205)

I was bullied at work for rejecting this. Actually not even so much for rejecting it, just saying that if we were going to do it that we should not to make such a big, self-congratulatory public statement about on our company blog.

I'm the "CI/CD guy" (sorry, person) and so far I'd guess I've spent about 40 hours fixing builds as a result of this change, pretty much always unexpectedly. Every time this happens I feel burned again.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ur-whale on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:45AM (#34068439)

> I was bullied at work for rejecting this.

Good: what you call bullying is what people from an older generation would have called the start of a robust and healthy conversation about why playing along with PC crap is bad for everyone.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by lo_zamoyski on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:30AM (#34068203)

"It's just 25 cents..."

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