I think it makes more sense to count reasonable arguments of both sides, not the people who thumb up in the comments (by the way, those who thumb up are mostly Americans, isn't that discrimination?) If using the word "slave" is immediately associated with racism, it's a sign that we might have too many Americans in the topic, because for me, "slave" is not equal to "black slave". Maybe it's because we have too many bears and too few black folks in my country, but we did have (practically) slavery, too.
I also have a problem with the phrase "inclusive language". Who exactly was "included" by this change? I highly doubt that there was a slave who started using django after the change. It seems to me, it's the American historical guilt playing a huge role here. It's an old misconception, it seems that if we change the words, we'll change the reality. By banning the word "slave", you cannot cancel the fact that for many years, black people in the US were treated worse than animals. I don't think that an attempt to forget that fact by aggressively labeling words as "racist" is "inclusive" or "positive". I actually think that remembering bad things that are now history should encourage people to be a little nicer to each other at the moment. We had slavery, and now we don't. It has nothing to do with databases :) On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:54:16 PM UTC+7, Daniele Procida wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2014, Andromeda Yelton <andromed...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > >Which is a little beside the point as the process for merging PRs is not, > >in fact, democracy. But is also fantastic, because I've spent the last > >week reading TRAC and hanging out here and talking to lots of people > trying > >to figure out if Django will be a safe place for me to contribute. And > >when I see that large a fraction of commenters come down on the side of > >inclusivity, I feel like "django developer" is a hat I can put on. > > If we get a single more person contributing to Django as a result, I would > consider this whole episode as being entirely worth it. > > Not that I think it's a sustainable strategy in the long term, of course. > > Daniele > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/4da37237-adb4-49bd-b710-280dda186aea%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
