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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
I was just told to produce a documented list of every instance of "non-inclusive" language in all of our source code repositories and documentation. Three generations of server products going back to 2009.

We have been using the Philips I2C standard since the first products we every build. Every single one of them has source code that uses the "master/slave" nomenclature.

I have to document a file name and line number for every instance. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? For what? You think we're going to change code and re-compile drivers for 10 year old products? And you think our customers want this? You think we're going to re-test 10 year old system?

This shit is out of control. They want it all changed to "primary/subordinate".

I got a big long list of language that can't be used. Blacklist is out, but "black screen" is ok. Who the fuck is making these rules?

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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
I was just told to produce a documented list of every instance of "non-inclusive" language in all of our source code repositories and documentation. Three generations of server products going back to 2009.

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Defending American Values, and History
Attacking critical race theory as “ideological poison,” President Trump reminds us that our government is based on individual rights, equality under the law, and merit.

In a speech yesterday at the National Archives, President Trump elevated a formerly obscure academic discipline—critical race theory—into a major theme in his campaign for reelection. In his 17-minute address, the president denounced critical race theory as a “Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation,” and that, if left unchecked, “will dissolve the bonds that tie us together [and] will destroy our country.”

After months of political instability, which began with the coronavirus lockdowns and accelerated into the George Floyd riots, the president has finally settled on a rationale for his campaign: he has positioned himself as the defender of American history, values, and principles—while the radical Left, he argues, wants to burn them down. He identifies critical race theory, which he described as an “ideological poison,” as the animating philosophy behind the “left-wing mobs [that] have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy.”

This is a shrewd framing. As I’ve previously argued, a straight line connects critical race theory to modern progressivism to the riots in the streets. All are predicated on the idea that America was founded on racism and that all of our institutions—across government, law, culture, and society—are mere camouflage for racial domination and oppression. Joe Biden, while culturally more closely aligned with the old working-class Democratic Party, has acceded to this new worldview. He has absorbed the vocabulary of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy,” aligned himself with the socialist firebrands of “The Squad,” and refused to condemn nationwide street riots for three months.

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