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Slaves to speech suppression are masters of nothing
- tomlock 8y agoThe author uses a lot of soft terms to delineate between "manners" and "political correctness", but never makes a convincing argument about how to identify when something falls in either camp. You can be guaranteed that there are people who use the term political correctness, that have a conception of its limits that you do not agree with. Question is, how do we identify who has the right definition?
- pizzazzaro 8y agoYou know, if we're gonna do that, "Honeypot" and "Honeynet" have to go. They actually still mean things in parts of the English-speaking world that are seriously racist. Hey, if the author dislikes "master/slave" in computing, maybe s/he can get us all to use "manager/employee". Functionally, there is very like literally when things go as planned. Oh wait, nevermind, we dislike word-mincing. Maybe server/client? No, that isnt always accurate. Words change. Perhaps we'd prefer "Roman"/"Slav" dynamic? Oh wait, the Romans took so many Slavs as slaves that their word for "people" became the Roman word for "slave". "Foundational" / "Associate" could work well. Like the way "associate" in a law firm used to mean something. Now even the bagger on their first day at the grocery store has "associate" on their tag. I dont care. Just make sure it communicates heirarchical data as is necessary to discern such in practicality.