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I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ I am curious about the language that you have

I looked at the page: https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ https://brex.com/legal/prohibited_activities/ I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? I thought that in 2018 tech companies wouldn't be using language of the 70s that has been used to promote hatred towards the users of this plant.

hdubugras 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Coming recently from Brazil, we're still learning the appropriate language for a lot of things, since we mostly learned english from Brazilian english schools. So when we saw this page, it didn't occur to us that this was an offensive term. What are your suggestions of more appropriate terms? Just cannabis?
- merinowool 8y ago
  Yes, it is cannabis.
taupebobblehead 8y ago
> I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". > What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? Your username, "merinowool", is deeply offensive to animal rights, is derogatory toward animals and objectifies them as producers of things to be owned instead of real beings. But that's okay because I won't pretend that if you don't agree to my moral worldview then you must be bad and therefore you need to change to become more like myself. Because why would I be so sure that my views are some objective source of moral truth? But I get if you need to feel that way. Everyone needs their comforting stories, man. And it's an awfully great payoff when others are wrong and you can feel right by comparison! Keep getting high on that morality, man! More addictive than smoking "weed", ooops, I mean "marijuana". Just curious what year you think "tolerant liberalism" became "fascist groupthink moralism"? Around 1997 was it?
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't respond to flamebait with flamewar.
dang 8y ago
Please don't break the site guidelines by taking threads on generic flamewar tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- merinowool 8y ago
  I did not intend to start a flame war, just wanted to highligh the fact that the page uses language that is deeply offensive to me. I think I have a right to do that especially that the authors were seeking an opinion. If you think I did break any rules I am happy for you or the moderator to delete my comment.
  - dang 8y ago
    I believe you, but the problem is that then your language is offensive to somebody else and they also think they have a right to respond in kind, and down in flames we go. That's why the site rules ask people not to take HN threads off topic in inflammatory directions. Divisive topics on the internet work that way; they consume everything else if you let them, so we can't let them.

hdubugras 8y ago

Thanks for the feedback. Coming recently from Brazil, we're still learning the appropriate language for a lot of things, since we mostly learned english from Brazilian english schools. So when we saw this page, it didn't occur to us that this was an offensive term. What are your suggestions of more appropriate terms? Just cannabis?

merinowool 8y ago
Yes, it is cannabis.

taupebobblehead 8y ago

> I am curious about the language that you have used - in particular the use of word "marijuana". > What is the reason to use such derogatory, offensive and deeply racist term for cannabis? Your username, "merinowool", is deeply offensive to animal rights, is derogatory toward animals and objectifies them as producers of things to be owned instead of real beings. But that's okay because I won't pretend that if you don't agree to my moral worldview then you must be bad and therefore you need to change to become more like myself. Because why would I be so sure that my views are some objective source of moral truth? But I get if you need to feel that way. Everyone needs their comforting stories, man. And it's an awfully great payoff when others are wrong and you can feel right by comparison! Keep getting high on that morality, man! More addictive than smoking "weed", ooops, I mean "marijuana". Just curious what year you think "tolerant liberalism" became "fascist groupthink moralism"? Around 1997 was it?

dang 8y ago
Please don't respond to flamebait with flamewar.

dang 8y ago

Please don't break the site guidelines by taking threads on generic flamewar tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

merinowool 8y ago
I did not intend to start a flame war, just wanted to highligh the fact that the page uses language that is deeply offensive to me. I think I have a right to do that especially that the authors were seeking an opinion. If you think I did break any rules I am happy for you or the moderator to delete my comment.
- dang 8y ago
  I believe you, but the problem is that then your language is offensive to somebody else and they also think they have a right to respond in kind, and down in flames we go. That's why the site rules ask people not to take HN threads off topic in inflammatory directions. Divisive topics on the internet work that way; they consume everything else if you let them, so we can't let them.