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grep-F ◴[] No.17955424[source]
I don't like that type of changes, it seems very counterproductive. Those are words used in a context and to me it seems that today people lost their minds and trying to keep everybody in perfect hermetic world, where everybody is happy and smiling. On one side we say to not judge anybody or anything, and on the other we do things like that - where if you would get the context everything would be ok. What will be next? Should we change kill command as well?
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UncleMeat ◴[] No.17955629[source]
The goal isn't to create a perfect world. The goal is to create a slightly better world at extremely minimal cost, given that there are plenty of workable alternative terms. I agree that this affects a very small number of people. But it does affect them and we have an opportunity to make the world just a tiny bit more kind.
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grep-F ◴[] No.17955761[source]
I don't agree, I think some people are being overprotective.

Let's go the other way around, how many words that might sound bad, in how many languages, exists in all the codebases. And now, how many people feeling bad about this I have to find to make change to some code? I know that sounds ridiculous, but I want to say, hey where's the limit, should we all speak using some machine - neutral words?

And another argument, what if that kind of change could brake my project, do somebody care about me?

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1. downquarklove ◴[] No.17956673[source]
If the code is written in English, and the meaning in English is genuinely offensive to some, then yes I believe it should all be changed.