I think a lot of recent changes in the language are harmful. Many common, short, clear, and concise words and phrases are being replaces with long, vague, sterile versions. Not only in the IT field, but everywhere. Black people refer to themselves "a person of color", and then even shorten it: PoC. Isn't that a ridiculous acronym? If I were black, I would be deadly offended if someone dared to call me "a person of color"! What's the next step, "a person with skin color saturation level significantly higher than of the majority of people living in european and asian part of the world, as well as north and middle part of the north america, excluding those who live in the south closer to Mexico and in Italy and in Caucasia and/or spend a lot of time in the sun"?
Is it really so bad to state your skin color or your (unfortunate) social status by using the word created specifically for that? It's bad when you subjectively judge people's abilities or personality. "Ugly", "stupid", "illiterate" - that's what you shouldn't call someone. "Slave" is not a judging word. "Slave" describes someone's objective social status. Helping that person and millions of others in the same condition is a good thing, but banning the word is not going to help. -- 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/bb49c050-0dc5-4006-933d-31f5c52d01f7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
