Could we please stop this thread here? Please take any further discussions off-list, or we would need an R-chat list for these kind of discussions (I would subscribe, though).
Cheers, Rainer > On 20 Nov 2020, at 11:28, Charles Novaes de Santana > <charles.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The fact that for the first time we have so many messages in this group is > proof that the question asked by Lainey is appropriate and necessary. > > No language is static, they evolve thanks to discussions like this. > Remember that github stopped using the term "master" to describe the main > branch of a repository for example. > > I wonder what would happen if there was a color named "redneck" instead of > "indianred". > > Charles > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 10:37, Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > >> >>> name since it conveys the wrong indication of its purpose. But the >>> word 'racist' in itself is not offensive. The act of being racist is >>> offensive and wrong. Purging the word 'racist' won't help rid the >>> world of racism. >> >> Indeed, if you would go down this road, where does it stop? You would be >> eligible getting discussions why the female species is described with a >> longer word than the male. Why is there even a 'man' part in 'woman'. I >> can bet there are man and woman finding this offensive!!!! ;) >> What do you think about these symbols for male and female? Should be >> changed also, this male is now pointing up to heaven = good, and female >> pointing down to hell = bad? ;) >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > -- > Um axé! :) > > -- > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD > https://github.com/cndesantana > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Office Y34-J-74 Winterthurerstrasse 190 8075 Zürich Switzerland Office: +41 (0)44 635 47 64 Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rainer.k...@uzh.ch rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.