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We didn't see your attempts to solve this problem yourself and so we cannot correct mistakes you didn't made and answer questions you didn't ask. To get help you should do something yourself and get real problems with something. If your problem is "I don't understand a thing", then you should go back to basics and study again.
We didn't see your attempts to solve this problem yourself and so we cannot correct mistakes you didn't made and answer questions you didn't ask. To get help you should do something yourself and get real problems with something. If your problem is "I don't understand a thing", then you should go back to basics and study again.
No, as an insult it's ablist. And "PC" just means "treating people with respect" which I don't consider a bad thing.
PC is the belief that changing the word but not the intent makes an insult 'clean enough to say in public' which is a moronic (IMHO) concept (can we still say moronic?). If you want to treat people with respect, lose the bad intent, and the words used stop being an issue immediately (for example certain races calling each other by a PC banned words is tolerated as no bad intent but cultural, proof of the moronic nature of the PC concept).
That said, its supposed to a professional forum, and posts should probably be on par with what is acceptable in the workplace. The solution there is the same... warn then ban/fire people that are constantly rude or you'll get a toxic forum/workplace. Again, all my opinion, which no one cares about anyway :)
That said, its supposed to a professional forum, and posts should probably be on par with what is acceptable in the workplace. The solution there is the same... warn then ban/fire people that are constantly rude or you'll get a toxic forum/workplace. Again, all my opinion, which no one cares about anyway :)
Who is being disrespected by saying that a non-human thing is "retarded"? Would it be less offensive to say that the title has a cognitive impairment, or would it just be nonsensical?
I would add that it's also the lack of distinction between the offensive and the hypothetically offensive. I.e. if someone might conceivably find X offensive then X is non-PC.
| PC is the belief that changing the word but not the intent makes an insult 'clean enough to say in public' |
You answered yourself. The title of the post can't have a mental handicap (nonsense as you said); so to make sense of it you have to continue to the common crude misusage (the word actually means slow: the title is slow?! that makes no sense either). Going down that path of translating it, the ONLY way to make sense of it is one of 2 ways... 1) the person posting is like someone with a mental handicap because they picked a pointless title for their post or 2) the post title is like what someone with a handicap would do. Both unraveled options are 'offensive' in today's professional (and hypersensitive) world's standards (agree or not, this is the world we live in). Both options disrespect both the OP and handicapped folks (by work-environment/pc standards).
There is no way that belongs here, if you follow it to those conclusions. I am not really a fan of PC, but I don't see anything good from saying thins like that here either.
There is no way that belongs here, if you follow it to those conclusions. I am not really a fan of PC, but I don't see anything good from saying thins like that here either.
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| 1) the person posting is like someone with a mental handicap because they picked a pointless title for their post or 2) the post title is like what someone with a handicap would do. |
If you actually believe that saying that something is "retarded" is implying that it's something a "retard" might do, then something you really shouldn't say in a professional environment is something like "this code is bad", because what you'd actually be doing is questioning the competence of your colleagues by implying that they're bad coders.
Taking offense is just a matter of trying hard enough.
Taking offense is just a matter of trying hard enough.
Its a popular hobby these days for sure, so plenty of people will put in that extra effort. I am pretty hard to offend, personally.
Im ok with #3 but there are a LOT of people who won't be. The PC police will turn 3 back into 1 and 2... been down that road...
Its a popular hobby these days for sure, so plenty of people will put in that extra effort. I am pretty hard to offend, personally.
Im ok with #3 but there are a LOT of people who won't be. The PC police will turn 3 back into 1 and 2... been down that road...
In the past 5 minutes I've seen 2 posts titled "Question" and one titled "Help". Bad titles aren't helpful to those of us reading, but they certainly aren't uncommon, and they definitely aren't "retarded."
We should always remember that people come here looking for help, not insults. Be kind.
Dave
We should always remember that people come here looking for help, not insults. Be kind.
Dave
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