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Comment by trainspottinfly

7 days ago

Interesting solution. One little tip, I would advise picking a different heading for the section "The final solution". That phrase has a bit of unfortunate historical baggage.

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johnisgood  7 days ago

I have no idea what "The final solution" refers to in terms of this website that is negative; context matters.

  • Jeremy1026  7 days ago

    It is the culmination of the holocaust.

    • immibis  7 days ago

      The penultimate step. The final step was the Allies stopped the German final solution, and sent them off to colonize Palestine instead (while keeping the gays in the concentration camps because the Allies were homophobic too).

  • numeri  7 days ago

    It was the term invented by the architects of the Holocaust, and I disagree that "eh, context matters".

    Setting all moral arguments aside, it's important to know that similar phrases can work as dog-whistles to signal belonging to radical groups, and as such can easily give people the wrong impression about you as an author.

    If I were to see a blog post titled "Work will set you free"[1] written by a peer, prospective employee/employer, colleague, etc., it would immediately set off alarm bells in my mind – even if the content of the post is a completely innocent discussion of the uplifting benefits of buckling down on one's workload. At best, it implies lack of awareness – at worst, it implies some extremely hateful beliefs and desires.

    [1]: Written above the entrance to the Nazi concentration camps as a false promise encouraging prisoners often destined for death to work hard in forced labor.

    • johnisgood  7 days ago

      We ought to change the whole IT terminology then. We keep killing parents and children. Context absolutely matters. Lack of context awareness is a deficit one should work on.

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