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Is there any evidence for your claim? Do programmers who view the word "slave" and "master" in a programming context poll higher on support for slavery? Should
by DanAndersen 8y ago
Is there any evidence for your claim? Do programmers who view the word "slave" and "master" in a programming context poll higher on support for slavery? Should we expect that the ones pushing for changes, because they see the words "slave" and "master" more often than normal on their own computer screens (because they're in the habit of agitating for changes surrounding them), are secret would-be slave-owners because the words are infecting their brains?
Slave slave slave slave slave. Master master master master master.
By how many fractions of a percentage point have I increased your propensity for oppression now that you've viewed that?
All this language control is an attempt to cargo-cult one's way to an imagined utopia. There's this idea that a perfect tolerant society, created ex nihilo, would obviously not have words for slave and master, so in order to get our own society towards it we should expunge those words. It's no different from a cargo cult in that it thinks that the outward effects can be summoned to bring about their typical cause.
- NPMaxwell 8y agoIf there is no effect, then what is the OP's problem?