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<blockquote data-quote="Teo Twawki" data-source="post: 8919546" data-attributes="member: 7033305"><p><em>Cleansing</em>, it was called thirty years ago.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sarajevan reader here. I find the use of the term not offensive, but highly problematic. It was coined to be incredibly pejorative by cultures with long histories of colonization through cultural hegemony. Other words could be used to better effect and with less ideological baggage. And that term carries a world war and several genocides in its luggage.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I'm not in favor of hindering the use of any language, just the education and self-awareness of its use. I'll have to put this word on the list to discuss in a graduate class I'm guest lecturing in this semester about cultural referencing and cross-cultural depictions. A few phrases, a novel and it's film adaptation, a couple of songs, and some rpg material are on the docket.</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p>Use of the term in this context suggested either/both: many small game companies are being manipulated by greater ones in hope and expectation that the smaller ones conflict and slaughter each other so as to ignore bigger problems and/or the problems created by the OGL have created a situation so bad as to be comparable to a region subjected to colonization and the birthplace of the phrase <em>ethnic cleansing (thanks, Ustaše). </em>Neither of these things are likely the user's intended meaning of this term as metaphor (at least, I hope not; I don't wanna fight another war <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> ). To use only one comparison, it's akin to someone claiming they work for <em>slave wages</em> (which would be, by definition, <em>nothing</em>) and whatever job someone complains about, it is almost certainly not one that is done for the wages of almost any slave in history. In this example, a more meaningful hyperbole might be servant wages, which could very arguably be true depending on the particulars of the job; used in a sentence: "<em>garçon, </em>more coffee... the restaurant owner pays your servile wages and expects us to compensate you for an accurate and speedy job!" <=employee denigrated as a servant and must perform according to expectation to earn a barely-sustainable salary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teo Twawki, post: 8919546, member: 7033305"] [I]Cleansing[/I], it was called thirty years ago. Sarajevan reader here. I find the use of the term not offensive, but highly problematic. It was coined to be incredibly pejorative by cultures with long histories of colonization through cultural hegemony. Other words could be used to better effect and with less ideological baggage. And that term carries a world war and several genocides in its luggage. Personally, I'm not in favor of hindering the use of any language, just the education and self-awareness of its use. I'll have to put this word on the list to discuss in a graduate class I'm guest lecturing in this semester about cultural referencing and cross-cultural depictions. A few phrases, a novel and it's film adaptation, a couple of songs, and some rpg material are on the docket. EDIT: Use of the term in this context suggested either/both: many small game companies are being manipulated by greater ones in hope and expectation that the smaller ones conflict and slaughter each other so as to ignore bigger problems and/or the problems created by the OGL have created a situation so bad as to be comparable to a region subjected to colonization and the birthplace of the phrase [I]ethnic cleansing (thanks, Ustaše). [/I]Neither of these things are likely the user's intended meaning of this term as metaphor (at least, I hope not; I don't wanna fight another war :p ). To use only one comparison, it's akin to someone claiming they work for [I]slave wages[/I] (which would be, by definition, [I]nothing[/I]) and whatever job someone complains about, it is almost certainly not one that is done for the wages of almost any slave in history. In this example, a more meaningful hyperbole might be servant wages, which could very arguably be true depending on the particulars of the job; used in a sentence: "[I]garçon, [/I]more coffee... the restaurant owner pays your servile wages and expects us to compensate you for an accurate and speedy job!" <=employee denigrated as a servant and must perform according to expectation to earn a barely-sustainable salary. [/QUOTE]
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