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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
MK14:
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--- 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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I have, and I'm still happy with what I said.
This thing is beginning to become the thin end, of what is starting to be a horrible looking wedge.
I'm NOT happy about it, and (freedom of speech), should be allowed to voice my opinion.
SerieZ:
--- Quote from: lukego on July 23, 2020, 01:36:50 pm ---
--- 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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I read the article and I 100% Agree with the notion that taking words out of context and twisting them so as to one can feel offended is quite silly.
I find it silly that a Company would waste its resources on addressing such a non Issue and I also find it silly that such articles are written.
Quite frankly even as soon as decade ago thinking such a thing would happen at this frequency it would have seemed quite silly and is silly to me now.
I also find it silly that somehow some people find it necessary to nanny, white knight or otherwise justify such nonsense. Why are they doing that? Seems so silly to me.
Simon:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 23, 2020, 12:45:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on July 23, 2020, 09:43:41 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 23, 2020, 08:49:45 am ---Can I suggest that we all agree that it's the seemingly invisible, insidious movement that instigated the M/S discussion in the first place is the thing that should receive all our collective venom?
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In that case it would go horribly political fast and get very nasty.
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You mean like now?
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No I mean real shit slinging, never mind the mud
madires:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 23, 2020, 08:41:16 am ---To summarise:
A small minority think it's a good idea to change the words master/slave, because they find them offensive.
Most people disagree with this proposition, as they don't find the words master & slave are offensive. They think it depends on the context and that changing them would require a lot of effort, for no good reason.
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I'd like to add that the explanation for renaming ostensibly offensive words isn't just flawed but also shows signs of racism and white supremacy. "Master" is associated with white people and "slaves" with black people only, which ignores history and the present. We had/have also black masters and white slaves. And people of color neither asked for the support nor were asked if they have any issues with the ostensibly offensive words. The do-gooders decided for themselves that some words are offensive and need to be replaced.
MK14:
I'm worried, that if we keep quiet about this (silent majority), for fear of being accused of being racist and unfair to other people.
In the future, I will go and try and make a forum post, submission to an open source software place (not implying I already do, or do not, do this), submission to a website (e.g. its comments section), etc.
Then something like the following, will occur.
GCC MyNewProject.cpp
>>0 Errors
>>0 Warnings
>>59 violations of new 'inclusive' language/comments filter, please correct source file(s), and resubmit compilation
>>Line 9 .. .. .. SnookerBall = "White" *** INCLUSIVE-ERROR 'Ball' and 'White' not allowed! ***
>>Line 21 .. // End Process *** INCLUSIVE-ERROR 'End' not allowed! ***
>> Line 29 .. SimpleAdd(7, 9); *** INCLUSIVE-ERROR 'Simple' not allowed! ***
>> Line 50 .. processType = MASTER; *** INCLUSIVE-ERROR 'MASTER' not allowed! ***
>> Too many other inclusive errors found - compilation aborted
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