[OT] master/slave debate in Python

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 17:07:26 EDT 2018


On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:05 AM Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:48 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:36 PM Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So, Chris, what have *you personally* done about real slavery where it
> > > still happens?
> > >
> > > If, as I'm guessing, the answer is "nothing" then it seems to me that
> > > you don't have much of a leg to stand on to level this accusation.
> >
> > Am I demanding that the terminology be changed? No? Then I don't think
> > the accusation applies.
>
> You're objecting to people trying to do *something* positive on the
> grounds that they're not doing *more* while you yourself are doing
> *nothing*. That's pretty hypocritical.

You're assuming that it's something positive that's being done. That
is an unproven assertion. I'm objecting to people creating churn on
the grounds that they're not accomplishing anything.

ChrisA



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