A look at the 2024 Debian Project Leader election

Which is why you have to see it as a trade. I get something I value in return for something I don't especially value. And because you have different values, you get the same.

> For an example of language being a vehicle for innate prejudices I leave you with a concept so rarely considered: in English "right" is often used as a synonym for "correct" and the correctness of behavior: "the right thing to do", "he did it right", "right honorable". "Left" often has negative connotations: "left behind", "left to themselves", etc.

Unfortunately, this is where political correctness goes mad. Language is going to be prejudiced - it's just in the nature of things. If you ban talking about prejudice, you encourage it! And English especially enables massive amounts of prejudice. Because it's nicked so much language from elsewhere. You go on about right meaning correct - did you also know that left is sinister?

It gets even worse where words are perfectly okay in one dialect, and prejudiced/offensive in another ...

Cheers,
Wol