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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Fri, 24 July 2020 06:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:17:17 +0300
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To: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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I agree that this is a worthwhile effort. And:

On 2020-7-24, at 5:01, Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
> I agree that none of this doc should mandate when to use any particular alternate, but it should say that documents SHOULD NOT use the exclusionary language except in direct reference to legacy uses. Leave it to the community and RSE to help clean things up - and yes, tools help here too.

+1


Lars

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