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Re:The moral case against equity language by circlefavshape on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:45AM (#35007623)
Policing language and beliefs is a lot older than communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Re:The moral case against equity language by fidgewidge on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:46AM (#35009546)
Beliefs, yes. But which part of the Inquisition was specifically about banning long lists of specific words, replacing them with semantically identical equivalents? Perhaps they did it, my history isn't that good, but the wiki page doesn't seem to discuss it much if so.
Re:The moral case against equity language by circlefavshape on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:49PM (#35044579)
The Reformation replaced the Latin mass with something pretty much equivalent, but in a different language