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[Ondřej Surý]

> On 9. 2. 2025, at 5:35, Michael De Roover <isc at nixmagic.com> wrote:
> 
> Long story short, context matters. Paul Vixie made the context pretty clear,
> as an authoritative figure. Perhaps we were mistaken to tie slavery into this
> discussion in the first place. Or perhaps the designers at the time were
> mistaken to consider these terms so normal in the first place. Who knows.

I absolute agree that the context matters. But there are more contexts - the historical context and the current discourse context. You can’t ignore either.

From historical context, we can probably deduce that the word “groper” had the connotations when dig was acronym “domain internet groper”. However in the current discourse, using word “groper” is just *ew*, and it is possible to take an action and just stop using that term, because exactly — the context matters.

Ondrej
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