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Should all previous content be rewritten on the internet to be PC? This is from 2012, and as far as I've noticed, this gender neutral thingy started coming up a

• toxik 7y ago
  In the same way that you wouldn't quote somebody on the whimsical nature of the feeble woman, you shouldn't propagate ideas that paint men as perpetrators. In 2012, this was already well-known. The language is jarring and sexist for no apparent reason. It is not undue revisionism.
  • winkeltripel 7y ago
    > It is not undue revisionism. Any level of revisionism is undue.
    • toxik 7y ago
      I think you need to brush up on what revisionism means in the historical context, so let me help you: > In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of the historical record. It usually means challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event, introducing contrary evidence, or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved. The revision of the historical record can reflect new discoveries of fact, evidence, and interpretation, which then provokes a revised history. In dramatic cases, revisionism involves a reversal of older moral judgments. In other words, it is historical revisionism that reinterprets history through modern values where slavery is wrong, and women can vote.
  • DagAgren 7y ago
    Perpetrators are most often men, though. That's not good, no! But you do not fix that problem by pretending it does not exist. The point of not using gendered language is to compensate for discrimination, not to hide problems.