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Re:Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl... by malborodog on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:18AM (#34854734)
It's not "nonsense" -- it's "woke praxis." By asserting this new understanding of language, woke activists are able to shape social reality. That's the point of the movement. So comments like this are a form of enacting that world. (And I suppose comments like mine are ways of pushing back against it.) Anyway, the wokies are correct about this very applied or pragmatic aspect of language.
Re:Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl... by dang on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:21AM (#34854743)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. I know this topic is fraught but your comment here is a noticeable step in that direction ad we want to go exactly the opposite direction: curious conversation is not about smiting enemies or intensifying brawls.

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