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

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lukego:

--- Quote from: 0culus on July 23, 2020, 10:50:14 pm ---The tone of this response to Dave's comment illustrates exactly what is wrong. People like 'luke' are allergic to healthy debate.

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I am glad that we finally cleared this up.

GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz firing executives in his own company because they were desperately trying to shill Black Lives Matter and diversity schemes. Goodbye!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8530435/PICTURED-Racist-map-world-Red-Bull-exec-showed-illustrate-global-corporation.html

 :-+

:-DD

donotdespisethesnake:
After wading through a lot of nonsensical reasoning about why removing some niche technial terms could do anything to advance social equality, I finally came up across something at least plausible:

Master-slave terminology alternatives you can use right now


--- Quote ---Fifteen years ago, while teaching a WebSphere Portal class attended by several black students, I became incredibly uncomfortable when the standard software term master and slave came up in our discussion about scalability and workload management.
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So there you have it : some (white) Americans are embarrassed talking in front of black people. The rest of the article is drivel.

When the first argument fails (removing terms addresses racism), they go on to the second argument : the terms are imprecise. Of course they are, that's the same in every industry.

So he suggests several nonsense alternatives, like "scripture and prophets".  That is supposed to be less vague and more precise? :-DD
The author even has to point out he is not taking the mickey, because the suggestions are obviously stupid.

Whether people should be ashamed or embarrassed by actions actions of their forbears, I think probably not, as long as they eschew slavery and racism today. The problem in the US is one of "frozen conflict", although the confederates lost the war, they never really conceded that slavery was wrong. They merely stopped the practice because they were forced to, but the belief in white supremacy and "justness" of the cause continued.

I think the Germans handled the legacy of Nazism in a better way. They didn't airbrush the past, and pretend it never happened. They concede it happened, it was was wrong, but going forward try to ensure it does not happen again. Rather than feel shame for the grandparent's actions, they take responsibility for what happens now and in the future.

MK14:

--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on July 24, 2020, 02:02:22 pm ---Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz firing executives in his own company because they were desperately trying to shill Black Lives Matter and diversity schemes. Goodbye!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8530435/PICTURED-Racist-map-world-Red-Bull-exec-showed-illustrate-global-corporation.html

 :-+

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We need more of actions, such as that. To reinstill common-sense, and normality.


--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on July 24, 2020, 02:05:36 pm ---suggests several nonsense alternatives, like "scripture and prophets".

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I can believe one or more religions, wouldn't be happy with those new term(s).

nuclearcat:
VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/23/vmware_offensive_terminology_style_guide/

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