This feels like a pretty empty symbolic change.
Really.
> used to address a group of people of either sex: >Come on, you guys, let's go.
I looked at article and taking offense at some of the words for which changes have been proposed by Twitter is really far-fetched. Some examples:
- Grandfathered -> legacy status
- Sanity check -> quick check, confidence check, coherence check
- Dummy value -> placeholder value, sample value
Is there really a plausible case for somebody to be offended by the phrase "sanity check"?
But I suppose we will have to replace that word too.
Jfc.
By describing someone as insane, or “crazy” rather than trying to understand what is truly going on for them, it is a dismissal of their actual needs. Whether you want to deal with that level of detail has a lot to do with your relationship with that person.
But this matters a lot when it comes to the police who are called to handle people having mental health emergencies.
These suggestions all make some sense to me. The outrage at just dealing with the changes does not.
It doesn't endorse or propagate slavery. I have never heard of an argument that HDDs have masters and slaves so people should too.
If I kill a child thread, does it mean I am 'pro choice' now?
Does creating white-list or black-list makes me become racist?
Those are just word, meaningless and powerless. What really matters is context and intentions, a social nuance that it seems like was thrown out with bath water long time ago.
It does? I mean, I’ve used a lot of hard drives and never had one whip another or resell it to punish a friend for disobedience. I’ve also never heard of an enslaved person being put in charge after the plantation master died.
Insisting on using inaccurate terms when better ones exist is a political stance which raises questions about the motives behind putting so much effort into opposing something which costs you nothing.
I can understand arguing what terminology should be used instead. Those arguments tend to be way more civil discussions and don't last long, and a way better set of terminology is set.