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		wolfgke on Aug 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Language contains human biases, and so will machin... When SJW warrior groups make campaigns that from now on some list of words has to be considered as racist, sexist, ...ist etc. I think one can talk of directed change.

akhilcacharya on Aug 25, 2016 [–]

..what if those words are?

wolfgke on Aug 25, 2016 | [–]

At least people before did not consider them to be. This shows that proving that say are is not so easy.

hamax on Aug 25, 2016 | | [–]

Or people before didn't care if they are?

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