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Not sure why parent is being downvoted. "Bruh" is a term with a bunch of connotations, including gender. Are people really that uncomfortable with the idea tha

Not sure why parent is being downvoted. "Bruh" is a term with a bunch of connotations, including gender. Are people really that uncomfortable with the idea that the words they use affect people?

hackmiester 10y ago
My ideal HN would be one where this kind of thing could be discussed. It's sad to see stuff like your comment's parent down-modded when there could have been enlightening discussion.
- philliphaydon 10y ago
  My ideal world would be when people stop being offended by silly stuff. But watching university protests and safe spaces makes me realise this ideal world no longer exists.
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reitanqild 10y ago
Didn't downvote parent. (Update:have done it now to avoid having it at top of the discussion) But still find SJW more destructive than the people they are fighting. We have real problems to care about. I have had people at work team up to give me a beating (got away by getting hold of a weapon and finding a corner, 15 years ago). I've seen girls been judged harder, backstabbed by project managers (she did a great job). I tried to defend her. And so on. SJW however are all about telling me what words to use or not. They are happy to get people evicted from PyCon for nothing more than they have provably done themselves. They make it hard to have a normal conversation because all of a sudden a word you use is offensive (sorry, not a native speaker so I don't know every connotation.) In this case it even seems obvious that someone is poking fun at the very thing. Basically they are on the same side only someone must use the opportunity to try to derail and others must upvote it so it ends on top of the comments :-|
- jakelazaroff 10y ago
  > We have real problems to care about. Agreed! Here's the thing, though: it takes such a tiny amount of effort to solve this particular problem. What happens instead is people get outraged and a whole debate ensues, when literally all that needs to change is a couple words in a readme.
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    it takes such a tiny amount of effort to solve this particular problem. No! No! No! Removing everything that anyone might find annoying is not a tiny effort. And it is not one that I even want to participate in! Even for stuff that still annoys me like unneccessary swearing I don't even care about it after I finish reading because I find this correctness more harmful than the alternative.
  - aaron-lebo 10y ago
    You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions. When I know that people have historically and are now getting treated unjustly (denied legal protections, murdered, discriminated against, etc) due to gender, race, religion, etc, I wonder how someone could possibly get offended by "bruh". There's some perspective that is missing there. Bruh itself is not even directly offensive, it's just loosely connected to fratboys which is loosely connected to frat culture. What is there to be offended about? What you are suggesting is that people should change their behavior to avoid the outrage of the mob. Now, historically, do you see the problems with mobs, do you see the contradiction in supporting mob justice with your aim of inclusivity? Do you have the same opinion about the use of AAVE? You're trying to make other people follow your social standards when the easier thing to do would to be not offended by innocuous language.
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    - jakelazaroff 10y ago
      > You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions. I'm not bullying anyone. My "cultural prescriptions" are just not using language that excludes people. If people are so attached to that language that they won't stop using it even though they know it makes people feel unwelcome, then people will be excluded no matter what. I'd rather exclude people who care so little for the feelings of others that they can't bother to not use a word, rather than people whose only transgression is to not be part of an in-group.

Not sure why parent is being downvoted. "Bruh" is a term with a bunch of connotations, including gender. Are people really that uncomfortable with the idea that the words they use affect people?

hackmiester 10y ago

My ideal HN would be one where this kind of thing could be discussed. It's sad to see stuff like your comment's parent down-modded when there could have been enlightening discussion.

philliphaydon 10y ago
My ideal world would be when people stop being offended by silly stuff. But watching university protests and safe spaces makes me realise this ideal world no longer exists.
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reitanqild 10y ago

Didn't downvote parent. (Update:have done it now to avoid having it at top of the discussion) But still find SJW more destructive than the people they are fighting. We have real problems to care about. I have had people at work team up to give me a beating (got away by getting hold of a weapon and finding a corner, 15 years ago). I've seen girls been judged harder, backstabbed by project managers (she did a great job). I tried to defend her. And so on. SJW however are all about telling me what words to use or not. They are happy to get people evicted from PyCon for nothing more than they have provably done themselves. They make it hard to have a normal conversation because all of a sudden a word you use is offensive (sorry, not a native speaker so I don't know every connotation.) In this case it even seems obvious that someone is poking fun at the very thing. Basically they are on the same side only someone must use the opportunity to try to derail and others must upvote it so it ends on top of the comments :-|

jakelazaroff 10y ago
> We have real problems to care about. Agreed! Here's the thing, though: it takes such a tiny amount of effort to solve this particular problem. What happens instead is people get outraged and a whole debate ensues, when literally all that needs to change is a couple words in a readme.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  it takes such a tiny amount of effort to solve this particular problem. No! No! No! Removing everything that anyone might find annoying is not a tiny effort. And it is not one that I even want to participate in! Even for stuff that still annoys me like unneccessary swearing I don't even care about it after I finish reading because I find this correctness more harmful than the alternative.
- aaron-lebo 10y ago
  You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions. When I know that people have historically and are now getting treated unjustly (denied legal protections, murdered, discriminated against, etc) due to gender, race, religion, etc, I wonder how someone could possibly get offended by "bruh". There's some perspective that is missing there. Bruh itself is not even directly offensive, it's just loosely connected to fratboys which is loosely connected to frat culture. What is there to be offended about? What you are suggesting is that people should change their behavior to avoid the outrage of the mob. Now, historically, do you see the problems with mobs, do you see the contradiction in supporting mob justice with your aim of inclusivity? Do you have the same opinion about the use of AAVE? You're trying to make other people follow your social standards when the easier thing to do would to be not offended by innocuous language.
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  - jakelazaroff 10y ago
    > You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions. I'm not bullying anyone. My "cultural prescriptions" are just not using language that excludes people. If people are so attached to that language that they won't stop using it even though they know it makes people feel unwelcome, then people will be excluded no matter what. I'd rather exclude people who care so little for the feelings of others that they can't bother to not use a word, rather than people whose only transgression is to not be part of an in-group.