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My "cultural prescriptions" are just not using language that excludes people. Yes. They are. You are trying very hard to tie up anyone who has a different sens
by reitanqild 10y ago
My "cultural prescriptions" are just not using language that excludes people.
Yes. They are. You are trying very hard to tie up anyone who has a different sense of humour than you.
And if we don't stop you know next time you come to tell ys that our straightforward explanation isn't good enough because "he" or "she" was mentioned somewhere.
We have accepted writing (s)he or he/she.
But you will never ever stop will you?
And if we don't stop people like you next time we know we are expelled from PyCon because we told a joke.
- philliphaydon 10y agoI think this argument in this video about jokes and people being offended sums it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYETmi9lNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYETmi9lNA "Because anything that has a status has a kind of power, and power always corrupts. It must be allowed for it to be subjected to ridicule, when that is not possible anymore, you get nasty situations, a dictatorship or something. That's why ridicule is important." "Furthermore, an insult is to some people a truth they are rather not confronted with. And this could mean that we can't talk about this or that because someone might be offended." Obviously insulting people directly is bad and no one on HN would allow that all. If the readme said everyone was a shitty developer because they had unnecessary updates, that's clearly not very nice. But the readme has a couple of non-directed words used in a completely harmless way. If we police this sort of text then we may as well just shut down the internet entirely. People will be too scared to say something because society decided to take offense to the english language.