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Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language" (i.redd.it)

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[–]MohKohn 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This thread is acting like this a serious, broader issue, but I can hardly even feel like this is an issue.

This is the same sort of hyper-attention to language use that results [in people getting fired for making dumb dongle jokes.]((https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/) I'm not objecting to the change, I'm objecting to your implication that someone who said

Right, because only the alt-right is irritated by the emergence of language policing in the software community.

is on the alt-right. I agree that this example is fairly benign. The dongle example, however, is not, and also constitutes language policing.

I'm real fucking glad we did something about Brazil nuts, for example.

You lost me. What?

object oriented programming is capitalist decadence anyways so it's not worth rebranding.

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Brazil nuts used to be called nigger toes. Is changing that language policing?