Den man. 15. jun. 2020 kl. 19.15 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima <danielrodrigues...@hotmail.com>: > > Hi Kalle, > > I understand your position. > > But i believe that changing retrograde terminologies that refer to bad > feelings, > doesn't put us anywhere politically.
It exactly puts us in a political area, because the moment we change these things we are effectively agreeing that this is a terminology (while unrelated to races) that should be censored. That is where the political stance begins. You are trying to censor something because you think it might be offensive to some, that is the first problem here. Any person raised with basic understanding of social etiquette and norms understand that these are not words that are offensive words, unlike so many other words. Claiming a word may be offensive to some without understanding the actual meaning of the word is poor judgement. > It's not about sides, it's about people, and our community is made up of > people. It puts us at different sides, because now you are playing on the feeling that it refers to bad feelings, and because it is a political agenda to censor, then it becomes about sides as there is never an agreement in a political spectrum. One thing your reply does not do either is to justify the BC break that any of these have on a grand scale. It might be fine to change your policy for your local medium sized open source project, but when you are dealing with something on the scale of PHP, you have to justify these changes and I still am not convinced that we should change these for the sake of changing. I get that the thread is to start a dialog, but I do not see any concrete plan here to justify these changes. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen ka...@php.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
