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biased language, who's bias

@AC "I suspect it's because the origin of the term "grandfathered" is to do with expressly racist US voting laws following their civil war and abolition of slavery."

This is an example of what I mean by who's bias. Grandfather does not have same supposed bias in other English speaking countries.

Supposed bias of words is going to vary for country to country and culture to culture if we go down the PC path it is going to never end. Words that do not have a supposed negative bias in the US could have in India or Australia.

To me this is all nonsense people will always find negative bias if they want (determined) too.

Look at this from their list "First-class entity" replace with "Top-level entity" does not "Top" strike you as elitist. ;)

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