GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Next we know the whales in the ocean will protest because of C, C# and C++.
Fkn twats.
 
remove slave references, stop learning about it, dont talk about it.

...i wonder what that will lead to :unsure:
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The problem is, those words exist with clear meanings within a context, it is implied and explicit. Many words are currently today under scrutiny. The word "racism" is now in the proceedings to be amended to be suitably applied within 'modern context', but I am sure more words will be under review.

You can say those words have a racist underpinning, but racist underpinning isn't its implied or explicit use within this context.

To add, context in modern society have been lost a long time ago.

As I have said in the other thread where OpenZFS announced the change, it has been years since I have heard master and slave applied in general terminology.

Say this is abolished, many patents will be under review... patent trolls will be the ever opportunist.
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That sounds a lot to me like racist terms being fine if they're not intended to offend.

You guys are over-analysing the issue. If plausibly racist terms upset some people, and using alternative terms requires barely lifting a finger, then why not just do so. It doesn't need a supporting academic paper - it's just being considerate of others.
 
Bryn said:
That sounds a lot to me like racist terms being fine if they're not intended to offend.

You guys are over-analysing the issue. If plausibly racist terms upset some people, and using alternative terms requires barely lifting a finger, then why not just do so. It doesn't need a supporting academic paper - it's just being considerate of others.
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you cannot please everyone.

master and slave in the context of slavery, is not racist. to think it is, is racist.
 
access said:
you cannot please everyone.

master and slave in the context of slavery, is not racist. to think it is, is racist.
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I'm in no position to tell black people whether something should or shouldn't offend them. If there is a preference for not using terms like master and slave, then fine. Why make a thing about it.
 
Bryn said:
That sounds a lot to me like racist terms being fine if they're not intended to offend.

You guys are over-analysing the issue. If plausibly racist terms upset some people, and using alternative terms requires barely lifting a finger, then why not just do so. It doesn't need a supporting academic paper - it's just being considerate of others.
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Bullshit. It's way more than barely lifting a finger. Do you realise the ripple effect this has on software, development and technology?

Apart from the obvious reasons why this is fkd, the fact remains that this always comes from the black community.
Don't like a word? Make it illegal.
Don't like a flag? Change it.
Don't like proper education? Take it away.
Don't like names of cities, towns and provinces? Change it.
Take every fkn little thing as an insult and racist action? Yes.

It's Bullshit. All of it.
Fk consideration.
 
Ah the usual American way.. superficial change to appease the dumb.
 
the problem is every time a black sneezes the whole white world trembles. The whites have become useless spineless sissies.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I get that they want to rename master and slave to primary and secondary, but renaming whitelist and blacklist... Somewhere primary and secondary will also become an issue due to the use in social hierarchies, you know, supremacy.

Come to think about this, will The Blacklist series also be renamed? The Deny List, The Exclude List, The Greylist?
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The #000000 list or The Eskom list?
 
What are we going to call Scrum Master now?

Scrum Mistress?

EDIT: Even worse, I juts realised the word "scrum" is problematic.

Scrum is a term coming from rugby, a colonial sport of abuse invented by the British to keep their colonies in check. Its built purely on the aggression of toxic masculinity.

I think Scrum Master should henceforth be Hug Mistress. Even people who identify as men should be Hug Mistresses. If they don't like being called a Mistress it is because of their own fragile masculinity.
 
gregmcc said:
Read through one of the pull requests on git for changing master/slave to parent/child. Then someone complained it will offend people who can't have children. I mean FFS!!
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I'm actually for this (specifically the complaining about whatever they are changing it to, however sensible it may be). Simply with the hope that someone somewhere will decide to do the right thing and give the finger to the PC police.

Because I mean, where will it stop?

Input/Output could be regarded as a sexual term, thus completely excluding those that are asexual (or some other snowflake excuse). Lets change it to Xput/Xput (or some other, more PC, term)?

How long till X/X is now problematic, since X/X is just another name for I/O?!

I watched some clip last night where Gordon Ramsy said something to the effect of 'the thicker your skin, the higher you go'. These snowflakes will thus get nowhere in life.
 
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