SambalOelek

Let's say you are training a black intern. Do you think you could, with a straight face, explain the nuances of a master-slave relationship in the Linux ecocsystem?

On some level, you must know these words have meaning.

Interesting point. I don't think the word "abort" evokes the entire loss of a culture due to systematic genocide of ancestors, but that's just me.

Do you think it'll hurt?

Thank you for your comments.

My point about "it doesn't matter how you feel" is inspired by comments like "political correctness culture is out of control".

So many times, people are concerned by their personal freedom and not their responsibility to humanity.

Being asked not to use a word is not severely limiting your world. The trauma of limiting your vocabulary is not comparable to the ideas they evoke.

I said nothing about skin color. I said my ancestors were enslaved.

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In all honesty, it doesn't matter how you feel about it. I do feel strongly about it, and I'm Native Mexican, and I have very strong feelings about my ancestors being enslaved. I was taught these words in the context of colonialism and slavery.

I'm assuming you weren't.

Edit: Glad to see the true nature of your culture. I probably won't come back.

I am quite surprised to see this default-to-no-action comment here on HN. Sometimes, a problem isn't your fault, but you are still compelled to fix it. If people have this attitude, then "we" (as a species) are absolutely screwed vis-a-vis climate change. In a generation, nobody is going to be around who did all the polluting, and hopefully everyone doesn't just sit around saying "Well I didn't do it!"

Is there something happening in the font world I don't know about? I just spent the past day struggling with fixing my fonts on Arch Linux. I finally just deleted all xorg packages that give bitmap fonts becuase I couldn't get any of them to load right in Firefox. This was after a font package totally broke my installation a week ago.

After working in the emergency room for three years now, I can firmly say no treatment even comes close to prevention.