We don't do that here (2017)
It would be great to see this happen in the opposite direction.<p>The next time someone intentionally misinterprets something as offensive when that clearly wasn&#x27;t the intended meaning, or goes searching for ever more obscure terms to deem problematic, or tries to silence and shame people who try to do anything other than fight for social justice, we all just reply with &quot;We don&#x27;t do that here&quot;.<p>Someone starts to lecture you about how referencing &quot;winter&quot; is non-inclusive to Southern Hemisphere readers? &quot;We don&#x27;t do that here&quot;. Someone says you need to rename your firewall &quot;whitelist&quot; of IP addresses? &quot;We don&#x27;t do that here&quot;.<p>It would be glorious. Everyone could treat each other courtesy, grace and assume positive-intent. Instead of walking around on eggshells and always worrying about what the most cynical, negative interpretation of a word or phrase could be, everyone could relax, treat one another as friends and allies and focus on solving real problems.<p>Or, we could continue down our current path of Orwellian new-speak, where a new group of religious extremists deem ever more language as blasphemous and everyone joins the witch-burners for fear of being labelled a witch themselves.