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Do you support changing the names that can be considered racist?

Yes 7 21.88%
 
No 25 78.13%
 
Total:32
DonFerrari on 06 August 2020
Ka-pi96 said:
mZuzek said:

To be fair, month names are stupid and really should be changed. SEPTember is the 9th month, OCTOber is the 10th, NOVember is the 11th. Not the only offenders but you get the point. What the hell, calendar makers?

The names aren't the only problem.

The calendar should be remade from scratch really. For starters have the same number of days in each month!

Impossible since 365 isn't divisible by 12, unless you want 5 months in the year.



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snyps on 07 August 2020

Can they change Wednesday day to Wendsday please? Or better just make it Odinsday..



KLXVER on 07 August 2020

I dont see this as a problem. Ive never even heard of these weird names to begin with. Its not like they are trying to change history or anything.



EricHiggin on 07 August 2020
Nighthawk117 said:
Might as well rename the Milky Way. Why were at it, why not rename Climax, Sask and Intercourse, PA?
KLXVER said:
I dont see this as a problem. Ive never even heard of these weird names to begin with. Its not like they are trying to change history or anything.

Just wait until the Milky Way does get renamed because of it's 'universal broadcast of white supremacy', only to soon be followed by aliens finally making contact and/or showing up.

'What's that? You've been keeping your distance this entire time because you thought we were white galactic supremacists? You would've already shown us how to live indefinitely a hundred years ago otherwise? OMG. What were we thinking?'

In upside down backwards world, this is the all but guaranteed outcome.



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vivster on 07 August 2020
DonFerrari said:
vivster said:
Very misleading title. They're not changing names, they're just dropping some nicknames. As pointed out in the article these objects already have official names that aren't changing.

Not really. read the second source. They are hiring advisors for new nicknames with specialists on inclusion and whatnot.

Changing an unofficial nickname is not changing a name.



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vivster on 07 August 2020
DonFerrari said:
Ka-pi96 said:

The names aren't the only problem.

The calendar should be remade from scratch really. For starters have the same number of days in each month!

Impossible since 365 isn't divisible by 12, unless you want 5 months in the year.

Only if you want to stick to completely arbitrary conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar



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DonFerrari on 07 August 2020
KLXVER said:
I dont see this as a problem. Ive never even heard of these weird names to begin with. Its not like they are trying to change history or anything.

Well that is kinda changing history, since several of those names had some historic reasoning to be used.

vivster said:
DonFerrari said:

Not really. read the second source. They are hiring advisors for new nicknames with specialists on inclusion and whatnot.

Changing an unofficial nickname is not changing a name.

And you said they are dropping nicknames, they are changing then. And there would be basically no logic on changing names that are basically numbers and codes because that would hardly consist in anything that anyone could find offensive. Also for the general population those nicknames are the names of those celestial bodies.

vivster said:
DonFerrari said:

Impossible since 365 isn't divisible by 12, unless you want 5 months in the year.

Only if you want to stick to completely arbitrary conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

That is one arbitrary calendar as well, since every year there is over a full day missing.

NightlyPoe said:
JWeinCom said:
Are the snowflakes the ones that are offended that constellations have mildly offensive names, or the ones that are offended that NASA won't use mildly offensive names for the constellations anymore? It's so hard to tell these days...

Our betters have been changing the name of stuff and making it a fait accompli for decades via style guides and textbooks and then turning around and asking "Why do you care so much about this?"

Ah well, at least we beat them back on the metric system.  "But, America, it's easy to convert."  'Merica don't care.  We prefer our measurements to be based on usefulness.

Sorry but inches and foots aren't really more useful than metric (that also is easily to understand and math over). Each person foot and inch is different so it isn't really something that you just make easier use, and people that use metric system have a good idea of some commonly used measurements.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Immersiveunreality on 07 August 2020
JWeinCom said:
Are the snowflakes the ones that are offended that constellations have mildly offensive names, or the ones that are offended that NASA won't use mildly offensive names for the constellations anymore? It's so hard to tell these days...

Answering to both of those is giving useless attention imo.



kirby007 on 07 August 2020

can someone explain me whats offensive about siamese twins?



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Immersiveunreality on 07 August 2020
kirby007 said:
can someone explain me whats offensive about siamese twins?

Got this from google:

The term is derived from the 19th-century freak show where paying customers queued up to gawk at Eng and Chang, adult conjoined twins who came from Thailand. ... However benignly it may be used, the term "Siamese twins" is as inappropriate and offensive as the use of "Mongol" to describe an individual with Down's syndrome.