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To think Twitter has lost the plot

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JaneJeffer · 04/07/2020 02:05

mobile.twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656

To think Twitter has lost the plot
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ShinyFootball · 04/07/2020 02:06

Master/ slave???

Miafey · 04/07/2020 02:32

Master/ slave???

It's a list of technical terms used in software engineering that Twitter have decided to change in their internal documents, following comments from staff.

www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/?__twitter_impression=true

EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire · 04/07/2020 02:38

Buy some people prefer gendered pronouns and there are even people who get offended when you don't use them Confused.

yelyah22 · 04/07/2020 03:28

Quite a few of these are common tech or engineering etc terms that seem innocuous but are actually rooted in quite offensive or outdated stereotypes. Not going make a difference to most people if they change them, but updating our wonderfully flexible language to incorporate progress in society is a good thing, surely?

Like how the Latin word sinistra meant 'left' but then it morphed into something more like our modern sinister, and that's why there is (or was until very recently) still a weird hang up about left handedness and people have been forced to try and learn to write with their right hand to correct it. It seems small and inconsequential, but when whitelist = good and blacklist = bad it speaks to older associations that aren't outright causing people to go and associate those colours with e.g. skin colour but do have implications in language and how we see the world.

Ponoka7 · 04/07/2020 03:33

Language has evolved alongside our Societies. Some things/words are best left behind. I don't understand why you think this means 'they've lost the plot', or what your issue is?

araiwa · 04/07/2020 03:59

I couldnt care less

WineAndHobnobs · 04/07/2020 04:17

So if you use 'they/them/there' to a transgender person, could you be accused of misgendering them?

araiwa · 04/07/2020 04:22

@WineAndHobnobs

So if you use 'they/them/there' to a transgender person, could you be accused of misgendering them?
No
IncrediblySadToo · 04/07/2020 04:23

Yes/ there's a plot that's been lost!

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