https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159602
--- Comment #7 from Tex2002ans <[email protected]> --- Strong −1. I'd vote −∞ (negative infinity) if I could. - - - See: "The New Newspeak" by Heather Heying (December 20, 2022) - https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-new-newspeak and the related discussions: - Darkhorse Podcast #157: "On Beyond Antibodies" (January 2023) --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwEMPgGRQLA&t=6369 --- Beginning at 1:40:30, ending towards 01:58:00. - Darkhorse Podcast #154: "Stanford Prism Experiment" (December 2022) --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonT880heFY&t=6111 --- Beginning at 13:25, ending towards 01:04:00. which go over even more of these so-called "offensive" or "bad words" or terms. - - - Here was the raw PDF discussed by the above article: - A backup of Stanford's "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" (2022) --- https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf That and its similar ilk has been making the rounds for years, where "offensive" technical words like: - whitespace - submit - abort - tarball or: - graybeard --- There's plenty of those here! - guru --- And these!! - grandfather --- And these!!! or common words like: - addicted - fieldwork - freshman - insane - mailman - mankind - manpower - seminal are all magically considered "offensive", and "must be replaced". This is complete nonsense. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
