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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by poulpy123 on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:39AM (#42682413)
I don't care about using main, master or whatever, I'm not a word fetichist. But I care about people campaigning for changing a perfectly innocuous word I'm using because they decided they didn't like it for absurd reasons.

It's the word equivalent of numerology

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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by motorest on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:54AM (#42682892)
> It's the word equivalent of numerology

I won't say that. As much as I frown upon the holier-than-thou attitude plaguing talks on social justice topics, the words we use do have influence on how we think and act.

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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by erichocean on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:26AM (#42682716)
I call these people 'word thinkers'—they can't get past the actual words used to the concepts being expressed.
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