RFC: Conscious language in the Binutils

[Jeff Law]

On 11/20/20 7:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:03 AM Alan Modra via Binutils
> <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:46:28PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
>>> Sad and disappointed :(
>> Yes, me too.  I probably should have just left it at "I oppose this
>> nonsense".  And you all could write me off as an uncouth Australian
>> without any racial sensitivity, which would be fine by me.
>>
>> As it is, apparently someone complained to an IBM VP about things I
>> said in this thread.  So it seems one of my co-workers dislikes me
>> enough to cause trouble for me with my superiors, or the VP is not
>> telling the truth.  Which is certainly an "interesting" situation to
>> be in.
>>
>> I'd still object even if I knew that would happen.  I don't see
>> banning certain words as a trivial matter of politeness.
> Very sorry to hear that.  That seems clearly inappropriate.
Agreed 100%.  I may not agree with Alan's viewpoint on this, but there's
no good reason IMHO that someone should be going up the mgt chain and
causing trouble for Alan.

Jeff