On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:50:14AM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 9/20/18 6:31 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: > > Thinking beyond my frustration with virtue signalling: > > I'm not sure that it's helpful to suggest that there's no > actual substance to concerns about inadvertent offense > being caused by unthoughtful use of language, partly > because it's insulting and dismissive but primarily because > it's simply not accurate. virtue signalling describes the condition where a proposed change does not address or resolve real concerns but is just introduced to suggest empathy and only accelerates the euphemism treadmill. Python: No slaves where saved in this revision of the language. Toerless > Melinda
