Bluebell
Explorer
The word "savage" has extremely racist connotations. That is not window dressing, it is a very clear connotation of the word.If the concepts remain and that's fine, and its just the word used that was a problem, doesn't that then mean that the word used is arbitrary/unimportant? But if the words being used are arbitrary and unimportant as long as the content is being expressed then why are people so focused on the specific word instead of the content behind it?
Does this boil down to people getting upset over window dressing?
So why does it matter to you at all? If it doesn't affect you, if it seems trivial to you, then why do you care if some words are changed? It seems like you're simultaneously complaining that it's meaningless and that it's censorship. Either words have meanings that matter, and therefore we need to be thoughtful about which words we use, or they don't, and freely swapping them out doesn't make any difference.That is my intention - I am in fact claiming that their concerns are trivial. Not because of who "they" are but because people's concerns are, in general, trivial unless they are accompanied by some action.