On 18/03/2021 17:35, Michael Meeks wrote:
I do agree it is possible to carry this far too far. However its easy to see how things like the unthinking use of eg. 'blacklist' can be seen as bad - that seems like a slam-dunk to me.
The problem is when it's assumed you're being racist when the words have nothing whatsoever to do with race - blacklist is a case in point.
Or - as you may be aware of - the argument we've had about pubs called "The Black Boy". There's an Oxfordshire pub where the sign is a Cavalier with long black locks - or a Kent pub where the sign is a grimy miner. No race connection whatsoever, and in the Oxford case I think it pre-dates the slave trade.
The worse example I came across recently was somebody objecting to the word "negro" "because its only possible use is racist" ... hang on a sec - it's pretty much exactly the normal spanish word for "black"! From the Latin word "negro" or whatever it is ...
Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
