Bah, lemmy, please just let me devolve into a reactionary right winger! Stop making me learn things and have empathy and compassion for people!

You’re right. Fuck. It’s just tiring being wrong. I grew up in a way that getting mad about something like this would just be replied with “tough shit”. I guess old habits die hard. If changing it really makes that much of a difference for people, then yeah, great job gnu people.

Linux users are gooners confirmed.

I grew up calling racoons “coons” in the region of the US I live in and it’s still common to call them that nowadays. Words can have contextual meanings. If I hear the word “removed” and it turns out some guy is working on his car, I’m not going to be offended, and I shouldn’t be, because it’s not being used as a slur.

All said and done, I don’t particularly think it’s a big deal to change it, but I do believe it’s a highly performative gesture.

That’s a massive reach.