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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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madires:
Someone posted following link in another forum:
'Unintelligent' blacks 'brainwashed' to choose street cred over success: Charles Barkley: https://www.al.com/news/2014/10/unintelligent_blacks_brainwash.html

So you can't simply blame racist whites, it's also blacks among themselves.

And we have more do-gooders:
Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave': https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/

Simon:
i needs to be a gradual process. If people are thick they are thick and will be unsuccessful or end up as criminals. I have always thought there is an element of culture but you'd get called a racist for saying that. At the end of the day you came to the UK, live like us or be a dropout.

daqq:

--- Quote from: madires on July 04, 2020, 10:13:11 am ---Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave': https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/

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Finally, racism has been solved.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: daqq on July 04, 2020, 10:30:18 am ---
--- Quote from: madires on July 04, 2020, 10:13:11 am ---Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave': https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/

--- End quote ---
Finally, racism has been solved.

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I looked at Twitter's own twitter account the other day, and holy activism Batman!  :o

tom66:
Twitter, the company that allows the US President to post racist and divisive tweets, but hey, they're tackling racism by changing master and slave!

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