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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 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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