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

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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: james_s on July 14, 2020, 05:02:17 am ---Who is "you"? 2 months ago if someone asked me to list every possible thing that comes to mind when I hear someone say "Masters", I would not have thought of slave masters in the south in a million years. I don't think I've ever used the word in that context in my entire life. Slavery in the South is something that happened long before I was born in a part of the nation I've never been to. It makes no sense to me that this is even a thing, I'd honestly be curious to know what percentage of "normal" non-engineer type people ever think of slavery when they hear that word.
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You (and everyone else) are making the mistake of trying to rationalise all this. The people who are behind this are not rational people.

nuclearcat:
Some more
https://twitter.com/crowd_supply/status/1282928876272840704

https://github.com/tigard-tools/tigard/commit/0e16d7792c4a2e309e5659f1e207b2d36458d142

Interesting how they are going to justify their "word inventions" according SPI block guide?
https://www.nxp.com/files-static/microcontrollers/doc/ref_manual/S12SPIV4.pdf
It just became incompatible with standards.

paulca:
The worst bit of this is not them changing the words.  It's them projecting THEIR racism onto words we all use.  By pointing at an innocent term and declaring it racist... is racist.

I am livid that they are projecting their racism onto me.

Racist fuck bags.

bd139:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 13, 2020, 09:01:33 am ---Personally if I designed a system that needs that type of designation I would purposely call it master/slave just to piss off the SJWs.   >:D

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I did that in a presentation last week and no one said a damn thing  :-DD

tggzzz:
Yesterday's Dilbert has comments that are tangentially relevant to this discussion.



I expect there will be a few follow-on cartoons

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