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I think a lot of people disagree with it on a practical level. Someone posted about how the word "Eskimo" should not usually be used, as it literally means "me
by WaffleIronMaker 4y ago
I think a lot of people disagree with it on a practical level.
Someone posted about how the word "Eskimo" should not usually be used, as it literally means "meat eater" and can be offensive. That's great information! I wouldn't mind an underline that told me that.
When words like "landlord" start getting underlined, the idea starts losing its appeal. Landlord is not an offensive word, and to try and remove it comes off as overly controlling for no reason.
I feel like programmers also have a more emotional connection to words like master, whitelist, blacklist, etc., because they are terms that are not offensive at all in context. When people try to change them, it always feels like someone is coming in and saying "I don't know what's going on, and I don't care. >:( You must conform to my worldview!!". Any offense is completely ungrounded, so tools that automatically try to fix "offensive language" have plenty of opportunities to quickly stop being useful.