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It might make the workplace slightly more welcoming (or less unwelcoming) to people who are descendants of slaves.
by quicklime 6y ago
It might make the workplace slightly more welcoming (or less unwelcoming) to people who are descendants of slaves.
- sk0g 6y agoSo is the intended outcome a complete ban on the word "master", context be damned? What about master's degrees, skill mastery, masterpiece? Surely if you see slavery references anywhere you find the word "master" used in any way, that says more about you?
- quicklime 6y agoI never saw the reference until people started pointing it out, so it says nothing about me. But if others do, then I'm not so attached to the terminology that I'd put up a fight to defend it. What I don't really understand is why people are so outraged by renaming a bunch of stuff. It's a trivial change, who cares?
- aspaviento 6y agoHave you ever heard of "give an inch, take a mile"? Today is a trivial thing. Tomorrow could be something more serious but then, it would be too late to complain about it (and today social media is the best example, you can see how peoples' lives are ruined by things taken out of context or exaggerating them).
- quicklime 6y agoI have heard that phrase, but I've only ever heard it used in cases like these (and never the other way around): - parents talking about children - teachers talking about students - management talking about laborers - rich people talking about poor people I hope you see what the problem is.
- aspaviento 6y agoI have heard it also between friends when one of them is too nice and the other one pushes continously to do whatever he/she wants.
- quicklime 6y agoYes, I’ve heard it used in abusive relationships too.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoThe list of changes already includes innocuous terms like "sanity check", "grandfathered", and "dummy value" so, frankly, it's pretty hard to make the case that the "take a mile" isn't already happening.
- lukeramsden 6y agoAren't most of us descendants of slaves?
- sk0g 6y agoHumanity has been killing and enslaving each other for time immemorial, so I'd wager at some point, most civilizations were enslaved to some extent. Maybe recency plays into this, but it's been abolished in the US for a fair few generations now...
- rimliu 6y agoWhat's next? Ban "atomic operation", because some developers may be Japanese? Maybe ban Germans altogather, because what do you know, maybe someone's grandad got killed in the WWII? These virtue signaling actions are absurd and, what's worse, scary. So happily inching towrads thoughtcrime.