On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:58 +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:45 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > You also don't get to call reasoning you don't agree with "bizarre > > and > > illogical" without justifying it. The reason behind this possible > > change was already mentioned in the original mail. The mail's hard > > to > > read, but fairly short, and clearly shows that this isn't about > > twisting words. > > I read the email. It said it was about removing references to the > terms > "master" and "slave".
Yes, both separately. It then mentions "social inclusiveness" and not just slavery as the topic, and links to a set of guidelines for which the URL makes it clear that it's not about slavery either: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/Language/NonSexist/vuw.non-sexist-language-guidelines.txt > But then went on to advocate removing a different word which just > happens to be a homonym for one of the above. Which is why I called > it > bizarre and illogical. > > Even if we accept the initial premise that history can be fixed by > whitewashing it and never speaking of it again and never even using > terms that can accidentally *remind* people of it... extending it to > homonyms makes no sense at all. It's easier to completely remove "master" to remove mentions of "master/slave" and to remove the non-gender neutral "master" than it would be to do half of that. Two birds, one stone. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
