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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

"Carlos M. Martinez" <carlosm3011@gmail.com> Tue, 28 July 2020 16:31 UTC

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From: "Carlos M. Martinez" <carlosm3011@gmail.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:31:33 -0300
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Not every society needs to confront the same issues or troubling 
legacies.

I live in a country where painting your face black is perfectly 
acceptable. It’s done by thousands of people every February and blacks 
and “lubolos” (whites in black face) perform all together in 
ensembles called “Comparsas”. It’s been going on since the 1870s.

See 
[https://carnavaldelfuturo.uy/2006/12/15/la-historia-de-los-negros-y-lubolos/] 
in Spanish, Google translate can be your friend.

We do have a troubling past when it comes to our land’s native 
inhabitants.

If we are to re-engineer all language, then it would only make sense to 
aim for the “lowest common denominator”, that language that offends 
no one and triggers no one. I believe this subset of language to be the 
empty set or very close to it, but that’s just IMO.

/Carlos

On 24 Jul 2020, at 6:11, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> I'm saying the document and the references are all too
> much US centric ignoring both the original and established
> meaning of "slave".

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