MyDeveloperDay added a comment.

In D69764#2935269 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D69764#2935269>, @erichkeane wrote:

> In D69764#2935218 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D69764#2935218>, @MyDeveloperDay 
> wrote:
>
>> In D69764#2934666 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D69764#2934666>, @erichkeane 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Someone internally pointed out the anti-inclusivity of the terminology, so 
>>>> I figured I'd bring it up.
>>
>> I apologise if I'm proliferating that, but could you educate me why its 
>> "anti-inclusive" I certainly didn't mean any offence in its use.
>>
>> I'm absolutely OK about dropping east/west especially if we think its going 
>> to cause offence and we just want to avoid that.
>
> I apologize in advance to anyone reading this who is affected by this, or 
> knows more about this than I, but my understanding is that 
> "west==left/east==right" propagates the legitimacy of a 'north up' map that 
> was created as a response to the at-the-time-south-up maps having Africa/Asia 
> "above" Europe.  The result is (I think?) a propagation of a 
> euro-centric/euro-supremacy ideology.
>
> Again, thats my 'ELI5' understanding of it.

Thank you I didn't know anything about that, so lets agree I'll make the 
changes to remove East/West to avoid any such issues. I might even gain a few 
fractions of a point from @aaron.ballman


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