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

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KaneTW:
All of this is just pointless feel-good-activism and I fucking hate it.

No single usage of master/slave in a technical context has even the tiniest link to human slavery.

Blacklist/whitelist was never something negative to begin with!

Utter insanity.

madires:
Yep, those do-gooders are reading discrimination and racism into words which have a completely different meaning. And it's shortsighted too. What will happen after replacing "blacklist" with "blocklist" when a new religion called "blocks" turns up? Will they replace "blocklist" with "denylist"? And when there's a new political party named "deniers"? Replace the term again because we don't want to offend anyone? Maybe they should simply stop communicating with others. No words - no harm! >:D

Zero999:

--- Quote ---Rename the “White” House
--- End quote ---
https://www.change.org/p/michelle-obama-rename-the-white-house?original_footer_petition_id=16446381&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=11&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAL%2B4WQEAAAAAXtwXEuXqmzM4NWExZTdiNg%3D%3D

 :palm: :palm: :palm:

Fortunately no one has signed it, at the time of posting this. :phew:

GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Oh dear.

SilverSolder:

Can a very dark night safely be called "pitch black" any longer?

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