Right to be offended
Right to be offended
Posted Dec 14, 2015 21:18 UTC (Mon) by HIGHGuY (subscriber, #62277)In reply to: Right to be offended by nybble41
Parent article: Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made
I think culture and how people talk about those acts is far more important than using the terms in different contexts.
It probably does a lot more harm to say "a little slavery here and there doesn't hurt" compared to "the slave machine will poll the master for work". In the first case I hope people will either prominently turn away or, even better, say that slavery treads peoples right of self-determination. In the second case, I wouldn't expect anyone to do the same (contrary to what we're seeing with this whole discusion).
It probably does a lot more harm to say "a little slavery here and there doesn't hurt" compared to "the slave machine will poll the master for work". In the first case I hope people will either prominently turn away or, even better, say that slavery treads peoples right of self-determination. In the second case, I wouldn't expect anyone to do the same (contrary to what we're seeing with this whole discusion).