Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious

Posted Apr 5, 2012 9:41 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious by neilbrown
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It's not so much that "attempting to heal the badness [is] an alternative to ignoring it", it's that ignoring it may not be an option. Seriously it's pretty obvious that "Beefy Miracle" is not going to play well in India, and obviously Fedora didn't care enough about those people's reactions to take them into account. It's not magic arbitrary combinations of syllables that makes people angry, it's being brushed off, told they don't matter, etc.

And the "deliberateness" of an offense is pretty irrelevant for other kinds of injuries ("hey I didn't mean to hit you with my car so we're good right?"), so why should it matter when the offense takes the form of language?

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Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious

Posted Apr 6, 2012 20:41 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

It's not so much that "attempting to heal the badness [is] an alternative to ignoring it", it's that ignoring it may not be an option

And the boundary is when the badness is directed outward and can hurt other people. It's a lot harder to ignore offensive speech when it has been followed up by harmful actions. Maybe Indians would be more inclined to laugh off religious slights if India hadn't been taken over by colonialists with different religious beliefs who treated them as second class citizens in their own country.