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It gives us evidence (for the above discussion) that the term “brown bag lunch” has actually been documented as harmful by someone - and wasn’t just made up as
by vmilner 4y ago
It gives us evidence (for the above discussion) that the term “brown bag lunch” has actually been documented as harmful by someone - and wasn’t just made up as a stick to beat diversity initiatives with.
I would argue it also gives an indication of how “mission creep” works.
(A well-used term like “tarball” now being deemed potentially offensive, presumably because it sounds like “tarbaby”, even though it’s obviously just referring to a bundle of files archived with the “tar” command.)
- mikrotikker 4y agoAnyone who thinks tarbaby when they see tarball is a racist and I refuse to let that become my problem.
- vmilner 4y ago"tarball (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." https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguag... I'm genuinely fascinated by how this came to be written. Were there brainstorming sessions where people threw out random word associations to show willing, combined with a fear from the rest of the group of accusations of racism for calling it out as arrant nonsense?
- mikrotikker 4y agoSadly, It's not the silliest example I've heard, let me tell you that.