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I get what you're saying but agree with the other guy. Just saying brother's ink or toner is first party instantly makes it sound like other brands are inferior. Just because you're intelligent enough to know that's not true doesn't mean everyone is. If recent history has taught me anything, it's that the average person is far less intelligent than you'd assume.
No, it doesn't. Saying third party just means not manufactured by first party, first party being printer manufacturer.
Would you not buy Baldurs Gate 3 cause it's a third party game? Would you not buy Call of Duty because it's a third party game? Do you pay more for gas at ExxonMobil, because Costco sells third party gas for cheaper?
You buy third party all the time. Saying third party sounds bad is just stupid.
Exactly! The difference with third party is that the manufacturer won't test it, so you're relying on the third party to verify that it works.
Would you rather call it "official" or "certified" or "genuine" toner cartridges? Because that sounds worse to me.
I mean, they really do need some way to differentiate their product from others. Because they do guarantee that their cartridge works with their printer (and customers would hold them accountable if they did not). They really can't guarantee that with any others. (simply because they didn't design the others, haven't tested them, and have no power to change them if there was a problem. All of which is perfectly reasonable)
This is the kind of stupidity that has us reinventing language constantly. Words mean what they mean. To hell with how they make you feel. BLACKLIST WHITELIST 😲 The horror!
feelings are important, though? if i can avoid hurting someone and all it costs me is saying blocklist instead of blacklist, that seems like an obvious slam dunk
Your feelings are yours to manage. You say why hurt someone when you can avoid it. I say why get hurt in the first place? Everyone has feelings about everything. No feeling is any more valid than any other feeling.
Exactly. Don't go out of your way to hurt others, and don't go out of your way to be hurt. It has nothing to do with race, and it has been used for hundreds of years.
If someone gets fired while sunburnt, should they be offended by the term "pink slip"? No, that's ridiculous, because the color in the terminology has nothing to do with race. That's exactly the same with blacklist and whitelist.
Now, if there was a racist underpinning there, I'd understand pushing for terminology changes. But there isn't, so stop finding new ways to be offended.