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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
coppice:
--- Quote from: langwadt on July 23, 2020, 12:09:16 am ---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
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The real thing that has changed is that until recently most claims against oppression were "leave us alone to live our lives our way". Now most claims are "we will say how you should live your life". That's really insidious.
PlainName:
Master/slave has just been the trigger for a massive clearout of humorous, clever and/or succinct terms. We now have to use only po-faced and approved words.
VMWare has jumped on the bandwagon and made male and female forbidden monikers:
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/23/vmware_offensive_terminology_style_guide/
Not content with that, they have also killeddeprecated:
* invalid
* masterful
* mastermind
* masterpiece
* master plan
* masterstroke
* simple
* white board
* ghetto
* kill switch
* taintSoon it will be unsafe to use words more than one letter long for anything.
MK14:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 23, 2020, 01:02:02 pm ---Soon it will be unsafe to use words more than one letter long for anything.
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A new 'Fully Inclusive Racism Free Alphabet' programming language then.
F I = 1 T 100 // F O R I L O O P 1 T O 100
P I, // P R I N T I,
N I // N E X T I
X = 3
X++
P X // P R I N T X
MK14:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 23, 2020, 01:02:02 pm ---
* invalid
* masterful
* mastermind
* masterpiece
* master plan
* masterstroke
* simple
* white board
* ghetto
* kill switch
* taint
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The list itself, is creating a form a racism. See bolded word.
Also, what do we replace "white board" with ?
I know, BLACKBoard ? |O |O :-DD :-// :-//
tl;dr
This (I mean the outside world, not this thread), is getting really silly.
lukego:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 23, 2020, 01:22:32 pm ---This (I mean the outside world, not this thread), is getting really silly.
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PSA: Consider reading the linked article more carefully before making more comments like this.
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