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Don’t forget “womxn”
Or “birthing person”
Or how “childless” is offensive and we should use “child-free” instead.
Or how “mother” and “father” are outdated and somehow offensive terms.
Or how “diverse” is code for “non-white,” and there are diversity hiring quotas.
Or how “whitelist” and “blacklist” are somehow racist. Same with “master branch” (and “master”/“slave”)
Don’t forget the Linux Kernel CoC written by non-devs who used it to publicly shame kernel devs and ban them from contributing over rumor, hearsay, and thoughtcrimes.
It’s the Bolsheviks all over again. -
@darksideofyay is right: this is just a translation into a new language.
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@darksideofyay good idea, but unfortunatelly not possible in majority of cases. We work with Java and most of the customer facing documentation is generated from javadocs and custom annotations. Neither of those are template-able
We're also going though the whole git-branch tenaming process and I suspect we'll have a lot of builds missing or miss-labeled on jenkins, sonar and other platforms we use ^^; this is going to be a pain for a couple of weeks eitherway I think. I will be pleasently surprised if this goes over smoothly -
@Root New language is literally spell-craft, words and images that affect consciousness. No wonder "casts" and crews on TV call it "programming." Do you program yourself? Can you? I try to avoid the popular media as it is usually crap. Real quality has a certain feel to it and proves itself. The war against meritocracy is literally without merit.
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@arcadesdude I very much agree.
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@arcadesdude Weak end, Good mourning, etc
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@JsonBoa black is not inclusive, please refrain from racist terminology
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@Root
Yep, it's not just affecting English.
Look at Latinx, a term most Latinos themselves are unfamiliar with. Ironically, it's inconsiderate of their own culture as they already use "Latinos" to describe a group of people of unspecified/mixed gender anyway. That's literally how Spanish works.
What is inclusivity when it alienates the very demographic it's supposed to be pandering to?
Same with womxn. I'm yet to meet any woman who has even heard of this term IRL -
@hjk101 agreed.
all mentions of "black" need to be replaced with "any color"
Don't you just love it when upper Management people that never wrote a line of code in their life tell you, the software engineer peasant, to refactor all of your projects with Inclusive Terminology?
I mean I'll do it, the company is just protecting their image and money... But I blame the sick mind that came up with this in the first place.... It's implying that all sofware engineers are somehow racist and sexist and I'm somewhat offended by that notion. Whoever started this trend should seriously burn in hell.
P. S.
Apparently "the elderly" is also non-inclusive and should be referred to as "older adult"... What the fuck?
Do you not realize that you're just disassembling words and nothing else? Also "AIDS patient" should be referred to as "person living with AIDS"... Ok? Same fucking thing? If not even worse? At least "patient" kinda invokes that professional help is given... A person living with AIDS just implies you're infected and seeking no help...
You help no one with this non-issue bullshit. All your replacements will be deemed outdated and non-inclusive in the next 5 years again... Fucking hell... Waste of time and money
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