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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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MK14:

--- Quote from: duckduck on July 22, 2020, 09:57:31 pm ---One computer product I just read about uses "Master" and "Minion". I thought that was a pretty good way of getting rid of the s-word while still being understood. If your goal is to mollify people who are offended by hearing or reading the word "slave", that seems like a not-too-bad way to do it.

--- End quote ---

That won't work out too well. because they both begin with the letter M.
So, in (minimalist/lazy), speak, you would be saying connect the M pin to the M pin, rather than connect the M pin to the S pin.


--- Quote from: John B on July 22, 2020, 10:02:46 pm ---Let's change it to Sire and Minion, then all new documentation can be updated from the old bigoted M/S terminology to the new inclusive S/M terminology.

--- End quote ---

So, the definitions of M & S (Dare I say S & M   :-DD ), are reversed. Which is just asking for trouble/bugs/problems/issues etc.
I.e. It says connect the scope probe to the M pin. Is it old speak (which would be Master), or new speak, which would be Minion (Slave).

Also, as Dave has been trying to hint (apparently).
If we start changing things now, it will be a never ending circle, of please change this, please change that.
So the colour and all references to Black, may disappear or need to be changed.
Dark changed.
White changed.
Who starts in Chess, changed.
Battery (Wife beating, so needs to change).
Cell (replacement on battery, see above), no think again, as it would remind them of the Police cells.

It would be a never ending circle.

Darkening times ahead (Striked out, in assumption of that word being banned in the near future).
langwadt:

--- Quote from: MK14 on July 22, 2020, 11:27:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: duckduck on July 22, 2020, 09:57:31 pm ---One computer product I just read about uses "Master" and "Minion". I thought that was a pretty good way of getting rid of the s-word while still being understood. If your goal is to mollify people who are offended by hearing or reading the word "slave", that seems like a not-too-bad way to do it.

--- End quote ---

That won't work out too well. because they both begin with the letter M.
So, in (minimalist/lazy), speak, you would be saying connect the M pin to the M pin, rather than connect the M pin to the S pin.


--- Quote from: John B on July 22, 2020, 10:02:46 pm ---Let's change it to Sire and Minion, then all new documentation can be updated from the old bigoted M/S terminology to the new inclusive S/M terminology.

--- End quote ---

So, the definitions of M & S (Dare I say S & M   :-DD ), are reversed. Which is just asking for trouble/bugs/problems/issues etc.
I.e. It says connect the scope probe to the M pin. Is it old speak (which would be Master), or new speak, which would be Minion (Slave).

Also, as Dave has been trying to hint (apparently).
If we start changing things now, it will be a never ending circle, of please change this, please change that.
So the colour and all references to Black, may disappear or need to be changed.
Dark changed.
White changed.
Who starts in Chess, changed.
Battery (Wife beating, so needs to change).
Cell (replacement on battery, see above), no think again, as it would remind them of the Police cells.

It would be a never ending circle.

Darkening times ahead (Striked out, in assumption of that word being banned in the near future).

--- End quote ---

thing have changed from end racism to; every system, social norm, value, method ever used by a white person is racist by  association and must all be destroyed




maginnovision:
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses - "Kill all the white people". This is an album I listened to a lot during high school. Soon it'll be their anthem(At least it'll be some decent music to go with the decline).
lukego:
I'm only a casual reader of this forum but boy does this thread give me bad vibes.

Like Yoda said:
Support or support not, there is no 1500+ message anti-"SJW" culture war tirade lead by moderators and administrators.
maginnovision:
This isn't a war, it's a defense of logic.
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