Reply to post: Re: There's A Bit Of A Slope On It

IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?

Diogenes

Re: There's A Bit Of A Slope On It

RE: "When a commonly used word is co-opted as a racial slur, should we stop using it for it's original intended meaning?"

I am outraged that Microsoft has called its popular presentation software what it has as I have heard that word used to describe Asians.

If you are in the UK this makes no sense as Asians are from the sub-continent, everywhere else Asian tends to mean people with pronounced epicanthic folds .

It also makes no sense outside the countries that have diagonal pins and a vertical earth (like Australia - google australian powerpoint)

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