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This seem like a strawman. It's not about "snowflakes" getting offended. Everyone understands that words have different meanings in different languages. So if I
by mnsc 6y ago
This seem like a strawman. It's not about "snowflakes" getting offended. Everyone understands that words have different meanings in different languages. So if I read "you need to get fitta'" in an english gym ad I just giggle and don't get offended like "hrmph, is this gym implying that I don't get laid!". But, when I'm in the process of buying a car, that giggle might turn into a "I'll just buy another car then". Specifically thinking about Honda Fitta.
(Use the site to check what that word means in my native language)
- rewq4321 6y agoAmazing that you're down-voted to -3 for expressing your opinion as a consumer. And it's kind of funny that people here are complaining about companies doing a thing which make perfect sense even from a purely financial perspective. Why choose a name that means something gross/weird/derogatory in the language of your consumers? Just bad for business. I think HN has a subset of people who swarm to these sorts of threads and rage-downvote based on some sort of unusual meme (in the original sense of the word) that's spreading through their community.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoIt is, surprisingly, absolut dogma on HN that, speaking only mildy hyperbolic, "ANTIFA snowflakes cancelling conservative free speech" is the single most salient danger these days. The only reliable method to get to -4 faster is to somehow, obliquely, imply that there is a remote possibility that the concept commonly labeled 'sexism' might actually exist.