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11:30 adlai|textonly how exactly did I end up as one goalpost of this musing on nomenclature?
11:30 dulapbot Logged on 2022-04-26 13:59:18 verisimilitude: I thought to myself, ``Would the former offend adlai, and would the latter offend asciilifeform?''.
11:32 adlai|textonly ... and in case there's no wetter paint than the semiotics of offense: arbitrary jokes about various acts of genocide typically don't offend people who tend to not take things personally.
11:35 adlai|textonly I'd be much more offended if you directly attacked me, for being descended from one or another clade, than if you named your program after some textbook example of wholesale human failure (and triumph, although folks tend to focus on the sad stories instead of the rebellions)
11:37 adlai|textonly one of my long-dead relatives from the generation that fled Europe made a terrible face and cut off conversation after being told that I was going to Germany for vacation; that kinda made me take a skeptical view of offense on behalf of stereotypes and racism, before I could spell either of those words in any language myself.
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23:27 thimbronion https://twitter.com/BosozokuTerKen/status/1520896928149491714 not actually spandrell but lol
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