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I don’t think I had seen those before: tarball [use instead: tar archive] While the term refers to an archive that has been created with the tar command, i
by kgwgk 4y ago
I don’t think I had seen those before:
tarball [use instead: tar archive] While the term refers to an archive that has been created with the tar command, it can be negatively associated with the pejorative term tarbaby.
whitespace [use instead: empty space] Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized.
Some of the “solutions” are funny:
Hispanic [use instead: Latinx, use country of origin] Although widely used to describe people from Spanish-speaking countries outside of Spain, its roots lie in Spain's colonization of South American countries.
Where do they think that the roots of the usage of Latin lie?
immigrant [use instead: person who has immigrated, non-citizen] Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics.
Saying “non-citizen” is still defining people by just one of their characteristics!
- el-salvador 4y ago> its roots lie in Spain's colonization of South American countries. They forgot Central American countries :(
- kgwgk 4y agoSouth of the border, down Mexico way...
- School-Cotton 4y agoAnd North American ones (Mexico and the Caribbean).
- eru 4y agoAlso much of the US.
- outside1234 4y agoAnd California where they are :)
- erichocean 4y agoFlorida says hi.
- outside1234 4y agoSorry - not saying that Florida or Texas don't have the same experience - just that Stanford should know better being literally in a former Spanish colony.
- erichocean 4y agoFlorida seems pretty significant to me re: Spain's colonization in the Americas. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Florida > Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery. Spain also lost Florida in part, by conquest (to Andrew Jackson). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Wars > The Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive, in both human and financial cost to the United States, of the American Indian Wars. Thought ultimately Congress did buy Florida as a sort of fait accompli when it became clear they couldn't hold it. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty > The Adams–Onís Treaty [is] a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. Interestingly, less than half a year later, Mexico finally (re-)gained its independence from Spain. Lots of Spain colonization efforts unraveled in a relatively short amount of time, historically.
- outside1234 4y agoYes - sorry - my point was more that Stanford IS IN a former colony and should know better on some of this stuff (not that Florida isn't a former holding etc.)
- erichocean 4y ago
- layer8 4y agoI also don’t see how “person who has immigrated” constitutes defining people by multiple characteristics.
- sacnoradhq 4y agoWut? They jumped the shark(tm) on tarball.
- tum92 4y agoI had to look that one up because their interpretation seemed so unlikely to me. Doesn’t necessarily mean there is no other history there, but I found out tarballs are real things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarball_(oil) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarball_(oil)
- eru 4y agoAn immigrant might have also just acquired citizenship..
- amluto 4y agoSurely tarball comes from tar, which is short for “tape archive”, which has nothing to do with the goo left behind from pyrolysis or with its color. Apparently whoever made this list doesn’t understand the purpose of the tar command :) (Y’all should really stop conflating tar with asphalt though. The terms are related but not always interchangeable.) Whitespace is pathetic. Even the article itself has a white background. In any case, in a lot of modern programmer usage, whitespace is not empty. Saying that empty space is significant in some file format would be rather silly. White_space is part of the Unicode standard, TYVM.
- laserdancepony 4y agoThat's exactly my impression. The lunatics driving this mad train of hate over fields they have no expertise in whatsoever are conflating things left and right that are denoting different concepts who aren't interchangeable. Reminds me of that woman who forced the change of master branch into main at github while posing as a "programmer" or "security researcher". I looked into her profile, only PRs for typos in documentation or cruft like that. No serious contribution. Only hate.
- naasking 4y ago> Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics For people so obsessed with language, it seems pretty silly to so readily conflate "definition" with "classification".
- hedora 4y agoLatinx is an example of grammatical colonialism at its finest. It's favoring cultural misappropriation of a non-english word over using the proper English adjective "Latin". I give it 1-2 more years before being put out to pasture with "African American". [Edit: Also, WTF? Indigenous people from the US are supposed to be called Latinx now?]
- derbOac 4y agoInterestingly, I've seen a lot of pushback against "Latinx" as a term from DEI circles themselves, that it's seen as too purely academic and detached from real-world use by individuals that the label would apply to. So there's something odd to me about that suggestion only because it seems to be replacing one term with an equally or more problematic term.
- erosenbe0 4y agoLatino/Latinx is not a direct substitute for Hispanic. To recommend that as a find/replace is highly irresponsible. People in Spain or from Spain are often or usually considered Hispanic but respectfully do not appropriate Latin-American/Latino identity.
- cryptonector 4y agoOne can be an immigrant and a [naturalized] citizen at the same time. "Immigrant" means that you moved [here] from [elsewhere], and decidedly does not mean "non-citizen"!
- davrosthedalek 4y agoAlso, the vast majority of immigrants are citizens [of a different country] and the vast majority of non-citizen [of the country they currently reside in] are not immigrants [but tourists, people on a non-immigrant visa, etc.].