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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Simon:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on July 21, 2020, 10:26:40 am ---I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious.
Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world.
Oh. And I'm not really concerned by people changing my SPI naming convention in any designs I do.... Chances are, if a couple of letters in a simple and standard serial comms convention are enough to throw you off your game that you can't work without changing it, well, there'll be other things that need rework in your "finished" job, and I'll change it back again while I'm fixing those mistakes anyway.
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bearing in mind this forum seems to be one of the few places not telling people how to think and is not closing reasonable discussion down like every other electronics debating platform.
SerieZ:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on July 21, 2020, 10:26:40 am ---I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious.
Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world.
Oh. And I'm not really concerned by people changing my SPI naming convention in any designs I do.... Chances are, if a couple of letters in a simple and standard serial comms convention are enough to throw you off your game that you can't work without changing it, well, there'll be other things that need rework in your "finished" job, and I'll change it back again while I'm fixing those mistakes anyway.
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It is fairly obvious that your entire worldview is so fragile that any kind of Objection seems like crying to you. I find that sad, not hilarious.
Such is the Echo Chamber in here that you are allowed to share your nonsensical Views without having the thread locked or comments removed. I think the lack of Echo Chamber is what really bothers you. Maybe go back to Reddit or Twitter you might feel more comfortable there.
The thing about this is specific Issue is that I do not feel like complying to fascist, communists or any other variety of intrusive and/or authoritarian pricks trying to shove their worldview down my throat, especially if what they demand is a childlike temper tantrum, makes zero sense and only causes me and others a real hassle if not even unnecessary racial tensions in the worst case.
Actually it makes me want to do quite the Opposite if it were not for me knowing that this is actually what people like you and your Zealot friends want to be outraged over.
When your demands start to resemble like real attempt at a solution to a real Problem we can talk, but I doubt something like that will ever come from Zealots tho and it is not that I do not understand the Grievance behind this Issue - it is your lack of understanding what your demands imply.
So unless you start to show some basic empathy you can get f*ed like the spoiled brat that you seemingly are.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on July 21, 2020, 10:26:40 am ---I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious.
Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world.
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Good to know, because that's why Donald Trump won :-)
Simon:
This is not a fair argument, it's not a case of having 2 new ways of doing something and which should win, it's about changing something that there is nothing wrong with because it may offend someone that as far as I know does not even know about the terminology and probably has better things to worry about.
It reminds me of a first aid course I did - oh yea, I said this one already, anyway - the trainer told us about how to tell if someone was struggling for oxygen but was unconscious, you look at the colour of their facial skin, he pointed out that of course in the event the patient has "black" skin it is impossible to tell from the face so look in their mouth as that is similar colour in all people and so works. He then told us how when he explained this to another class once there was a black man in the audience and a white woman who decided to take offence on his behalf. So he asked the black man if he found it offensive to which he said no. Pointing out a difference is not racist, no more that using the word slave is racist. But apparently according to a woke white woman black people should get a worse quality/outcome of first aid because she gets to decide what offends them, and that sums up the current situation. Not to mention the fact that slavery happens now like ever before.
daqq:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on July 21, 2020, 10:26:40 am ---I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious.
Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world.
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First of all, I am not a conservative. I have a mix of views, some of which would be considered very liberal, some of which would be considered somewhat conservative.
To summarize your post:
A bunch of rabid SJW screaming their heads off and calling everyone around an insensitive racist because the world does not immediately bend to their whims, whilst they desperately try to find racism in terms like blacklist/whitelist: Not a tantrum.
Concerned engineers that would prefer to avoid the mess that can arise from changing a century's worth of documentation, terms etc. who do not see the inherit value in appealing to the hypersensitive fringe: A tantrum.
As to it gaining momentum: A bunch of tech companies had changed the internal terminology to get cheap marketing points. Whooptydoo. This summarizes it best:
https://9gag.com/gag/aYy7wBO?ref=android
Corporations do not care about causes. If they are supporting your cause they are not doing it out of high morals, or because they think it is ethical. They are doing it because they will gain cheap marketing points and have calculated that it's OK for them to do it. What the engineers inside of the company think can/will generally be a totally different matter.
If McDonalds could get away with serving endangered rhino meat and it would be a cheaper alternative that would not affect their bottom line negatively, they would do it.
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