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Personally, I am much more bothered by the caustic atmosphere created by the overly Politically Correct backlash when an insignificant implication is made...
by bcook 11y ago
Personally, I am much more bothered by the caustic atmosphere created by the overly Politically Correct backlash when an insignificant implication is made...
- tptacek 11y agoThe environment is caustic in large part because you're pouring lye onto it. Someone took a moment to explain --- very correctly --- that using "mom" as a metonym for "technically naive" is inaccurate, dismissive, and exclusionary. That comment didn't accuse anyone of intending to do any of that. It simply pointed out the outcome of the wording. The very same comment could have been written about "grandfather" and ageism. Nobody asked you to be offended, or to take offense.
- locopati 11y agoPerhaps the implication is not actually insignificant.