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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 20 September 2018 20:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On 20. Sep 2018, at 22:57, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Don't use offensive words but apply common
> sense in using 'politically correct' language."

You lose: “politically correct” is offensive.

Grüße, Carsten

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