People who think that eliminating racial slurs eliminates racism are cotton-pickin' wrong.
@wirehead2501 Yes. I'm really not meaning to support the "let's stick up for all people being shitbirds in public fora" crowd or anything.
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@wirehead2501 I mean, IMO there is a level that language policing gets taken to where magical thinking and status display have taken over.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime i think i read your tweet in the context of this week's nodejs drama. thoroughly sick of the "words don't matter" crowd. :P -
@wirehead2501 Oh, the let's-revert-gender-neutral-doc-language thing? Yeah, no, fuck that. That's just fucking hygiene. -
@chaosprime yeah. but a ton of people were like "this is dumb, changing to gender neutral pronouns isn't going to fix sexism" so >_< -
@wirehead2501 'Course. I wonder if they also don't do unit testing because it can't address design failures. -
@wirehead2501 Or don't bother washing their hands after using the latrine because doing so doesn't cure cancer. -
@wirehead2501 (Re orig tweet, I started feeling like I'd let an amusing language artifact lead me down a dark path when Will favorited it.) -
@wirehead2501 (It was a product of an IRL conversation not related to anything really.) -
@chaosprime yeah, i think you had an accidental context-collision there and it was full of landmines. - 1 more reply
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