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I came across this sentiment on Twitter for the first time just a few hours ago today, and while it almost feels like searching for reasons to be offended (whic
by ngngngng 6y ago
I came across this sentiment on Twitter for the first time just a few hours ago today, and while it almost feels like searching for reasons to be offended (which you will always find) I'm pretty happy with the change. Allowlist/Blocklist is even more obvious than the original.
- neysofu 6y agoDeleted
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Same argument against replacing "master / slave". It's a powerful metaphor that sometimes works really well when talking about IT. Whether it works really well depends on cultural loading of the concepts in the audience, that's the nature of metaphor. Choosing terms whose cultural loading has less intense variation will result in more consistent effect.
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- rowawey 6y agoThat describes most "news" and social media.. crybullies, pseudo-thin-skin, and the biggest shouters of trivialities... because outrage is the most valuable currency of virality. There are legitimate causes and actual harm that the SJWs ignore and denigrate through pettiness and demands of arbitrary, baseless conformity. As the SJWs take over, language itself will be destroyed and arbitrarily reshaped to compel everyone to practice their sanitization and control of every possible expression of thought.
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account for using HN for ideological flamewar and ignoring our request to stop. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html