Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by boodleboodle 527 days ago
I fall on the opposite spectrum: I don't think the author's call for consideracy deserves shaming with a term like "language policing". Instead in my mind, I label comments like this that reject calls for compassion as "defensive insensitivity". I think terms can still be demeaning even without demeaning intentions. Like "orientals".