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"Being more inclusive with our writing is a good goal, and one that’s worth striving toward as we string these sentences together and share them with the world.
by skrbjc 4y ago
"Being more inclusive with our writing is a good goal, and one that’s worth striving toward as we string these sentences together and share them with the world. “Police officers” is more accurate than “policemen.” Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” and “master/slave” out of our vocabulary not only addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology, but forces us as writers and researchers to be more creative with the way we describe things. Shifts in our speech like swapping “manned” for “crewed” spaceflight are attempts to correct histories of erasing women and non-binary people from the industries where they work."
This is a whole paragraph in the article where the author agrees this is good thing, just that google implemented it poorly.