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Controversial suggestion but can the California folks just do their own bay area version of products? The rest of us around the world never asked for any of th

Controversial suggestion but can the California folks just do their own bay area version of products? The rest of us around the world never asked for any of this weirdness Will it suggest "peace be upon him" in Islamic countries next? If not, why not? At least that's an actual religion unlike whatever this weirdness is. How is it inclusive to export this thinking to places that don't want it? Words are really just words. I never enslaved anyone and neither did my ancestors. Keep the word master and slave.

_Algernon_ 4y ago
>and neither did my ancestors Considering the number of ancestors in your past, this is highly unlikely for any human being alive today.
- fareesh 4y ago
  If every human being alive has had a slavemaster ancestor, all the more reason to not care about the use of the word in a completely unrelated context involving hard drives or branches of information.
  - npteljes 4y ago
    If we know that a behavior is harmful, all the more reason to stop keeping it up. I'm sure we can manage technology without edgy analogies to people fucking or suffering.
dane-pgp 4y ago
> Words are really just words. But they're not though. Words are products of, and inputs into, people's culture and modes of thought. Which is exactly why giving this much global power to one unelected politically extreme group of people is so dangerous.
- nicbou 4y ago
  The best example to drive the point home is the Nazi's "useless mouths". It's a terrifyingly effective term if your goal is to shape public opinion. Another is the freedom fighter vs terrorist word choice.
- fareesh 4y ago
  Imagine you work in Wakanda and slave was s'mballa and master was m'chatka and one day the science department said ok we're calling it m'butu by default instead. Does it shape anything for you? You're just doing your 9-5 building T'Challa's HUD for his panther helmet as an immigrant worker who barely speaks the language. If anything it just makes your life more annoying when the Wakandan scientists rattle off instructions to you and you're barely keeping up. They are just words. Perhaps in Wakandan culture the change is significant and shapes their models of thinking but we are talking about terminology changes for all of planet Earth and beyond. Why not do some soul searching and come to terms with your ugly history on your own instead of dragging everyone into it. (I am using "you" in the general sense, not directing it at anyone in particular)

_Algernon_ 4y ago

>and neither did my ancestors Considering the number of ancestors in your past, this is highly unlikely for any human being alive today.

fareesh 4y ago
If every human being alive has had a slavemaster ancestor, all the more reason to not care about the use of the word in a completely unrelated context involving hard drives or branches of information.
- npteljes 4y ago
  If we know that a behavior is harmful, all the more reason to stop keeping it up. I'm sure we can manage technology without edgy analogies to people fucking or suffering.

dane-pgp 4y ago

> Words are really just words. But they're not though. Words are products of, and inputs into, people's culture and modes of thought. Which is exactly why giving this much global power to one unelected politically extreme group of people is so dangerous.

nicbou 4y ago
The best example to drive the point home is the Nazi's "useless mouths". It's a terrifyingly effective term if your goal is to shape public opinion. Another is the freedom fighter vs terrorist word choice.
fareesh 4y ago
Imagine you work in Wakanda and slave was s'mballa and master was m'chatka and one day the science department said ok we're calling it m'butu by default instead. Does it shape anything for you? You're just doing your 9-5 building T'Challa's HUD for his panther helmet as an immigrant worker who barely speaks the language. If anything it just makes your life more annoying when the Wakandan scientists rattle off instructions to you and you're barely keeping up. They are just words. Perhaps in Wakandan culture the change is significant and shapes their models of thinking but we are talking about terminology changes for all of planet Earth and beyond. Why not do some soul searching and come to terms with your ugly history on your own instead of dragging everyone into it. (I am using "you" in the general sense, not directing it at anyone in particular)