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I think these updates retard our ability to effectively communicate and do not effectively combat ANY form of discrimination nor incease inclusivity.
by GenerocUsername 5y ago
I think these updates retard our ability to effectively communicate and do not effectively combat ANY form of discrimination nor incease inclusivity.
- version_five 5y agoI think there is a dual purpose. Maybe triple: 1. The Orwellian sense of constraining thought. Personally I think this gives the people making these rules too much credit. 2. "Virtue signaling" or whatever you want to call it. There is a self-reinforcing desire to show everyone how progressive (or devout generally) one is and it spirals out of control 3. The origin of a lot of this stuff is essentially agitators who want to cause trouble and find things to get unhappy about generally. Another way of looking at it is that it's just a bunch of trolls. I think it starts with trolling, and then terrified, risk averse administrators end up at my point 2 above because they don't want to risk standing up to the trolls.
- kerneloftruth 5y agoGoogle would probably fine you for using the word "retard". /s
- version_five 5y agoThere is a story about a public figure having to resign for using the word niggardly which derives from an old Norse root (same as "niggling") and has nothing to do with the offensive near-homonym. This is not some principled desire not to offend, it's people looking for something to get upset about. It would not surprise me at all if one could find a real example of "retarded" in its original sense being proscribed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word...