There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

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    These stupid wars on words IMHO is the reason why “liberals” were regarded as a joke prior to trump election

    Like banning “master” in github as well as dumb, regex based words filters in chats. Oh you want to mention the “beta version”? Too bad, a social justice warrior decided that “beta” is now offensive, you have to change your language so that you wont affect the hypothetic easily offendable persons

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      Like banning “master” in github as well as dumb

      Master wasn’t banned. The default name was changed from master to main. Literally nothing is stopping you from choosing to use master.

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        While they are incorrect about the specific term, their main paint is correct. “Slave” was removed from the terminology.

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        While this is technically correct, when you say “we’re switching the default branch name from master to main to be less culturally insensitive”, you kind of imply that people who continue using master are culturally insensitive. And nobody likes being called that (generally), so it still feels like a ban to people.