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This has been such a frustrating culture war definitional argument.

Not necessarily a culture war thing. People who aren't familiar with the subject might take "unskilled" in the plain-english sense, as a pejorative. And who can blame them? We're english speakers before we're technical speakers.

Make gracious assumptions.

Anyone who has worked in a job classified 'unskilled' generally doesn't need a pejorative to feel unloved. It's the nature of the game.

Digging ditches generally sucks, same as I imagine being a striker, but most anyone can do it (until their body gives out, anyway, which in some cases is 'immediately').

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