Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 25, 2021 20:49 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Code humor and inclusiveness by marcH
Parent article: Code humor and inclusiveness

I had great problems discussing race issues on Groklaw because "black" is in Inclusive_GB, but the translation "African American" is both wrong and, imho, belongs in Exclusive_GB.

Spell checkers etc don't force you to use certain words, true, but if your words are in someone else's exclusive dictionary then it makes it impossible to communicate ...

Cheers,
Wol

Code humor and inclusiveness

Posted Jun 26, 2021 2:54 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Understood: finding common language can be difficult when discussing sensitive topics. On the other hand, I don't expect to ever have to use "African American" in source code and no one has requested to rename red-black trees yet. Worst case we'll just do as the Americans do and get back to work, what's new? After all what countries are the GAFAM, FAANG and many others based from?