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We really shouldn't be sacrificing whole words just to appease cranks who won't be satisfied anyway. The English language has subtleties and people should stop
by LanceH 5y ago
We really shouldn't be sacrificing whole words just to appease cranks who won't be satisfied anyway. The English language has subtleties and people should stop trying to conflate meanings just to feed the outrage.
- thereare5lights 5y agoYou're talking about a situation where priming is relevant. Your objection doesn't address the problem.
- LanceH 5y ago
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- dang 5y agoPlease also don't take HN threads further into flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please. Also, we've already asked you not to do ideological flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- V-2 5y agoAgreed. I'm all for inclusivity, but everybody knows (by and large) what a one's "dark side" means, and that it has nothing to do with ethnicity (which is what the GP is hinting at).. Viewers don't assume Dexter's *dark passenger" is a representation of a Black person, nor Dar(k|th) Vader (despite being dressed all in black, and coincidentally, even dubbed by a Black actor). Darkness is a well established idiom in psychology, and if there's any confusion about it, I wouldn't say it's "unwanted" - more like deliberately assumed, explicitly suggested, intended.