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Yeah, we all have biases, and fish don't know they're in water.. but is an attempt to be unbiased so much to ask?

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  attempts are laudable, but ... towards which "neutral"? (this is where a closed forum, like a mailing list, has an easier time: one can aim for "what is generally acceptable among the known readership". To Kill A Mockingbird has a wonderful illustration of code switching, but was recently unacceptable to quote on a forum dealing with under- and over-class biases, both explicit and implicit, exactly because it literally used the n-word, and not only did it use it, but needed to do so, demonstrating the lines between in- and out-group usage. When it came to forum policy, the distinction between use and mention was lost.) cf https://www.tatler.com/article/nancy-mitford-u-and-non-u-language https://www.tatler.com/article/nancy-mitford-u-and-non-u-lan...