Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

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Dan Harkins wrote:

   This is a classic "First World Problem" where affluent people who lack
serious life problems create drama in order to provide meaning to their
lives. So now we are being told that words that cause harm? For whom? Well
these First World People are identifying other communities (by race, by
ethnicity) who they declare are harmed by their language.

It perfectly explains why so many white people attempt to ban
innocent terminologies such as "blacklist" while avoiding to work
on the impossible task to rephrase problematic (only for their
opinion) parts of Thriller and the Lord of the Rings only to
prove their attempts are meaningless.

						Masataka Ohta




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