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

--- Quote from: DrG on June 12, 2020, 05:33:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on June 12, 2020, 05:16:04 pm ---guess what the word vagina originated from.

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It is from the latin for men to serve - servo non choico

No, I don't know, it just says late 17th century: from Latin, literally ‘sheath, scabbard’.

Also, do we have to rename Master Debater to Wanker Enthusiast in order to combat racism?

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Yes quite scabbard the thing a Roman put his sword into, do we now have to change the word vagina because it's male oriented, sexist, puts the man in control? or are we safe in that social justice warriors don't know Latin and have never thought to go through the anatomy book for reasons to take offence.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 12, 2020, 04:30:33 pm ---Oh it's gone full retard now: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312

Master branch on github may be renamed main etc etc.

There are not even slaves in git.  |O

This is just erasing language for the sake of it. We're going to end up with a shallow dialect of newspeak and fuck all else by the end of this.

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It is whitewashing language. (And how long before some ignoramus objects to that term!)

There's also ZFS, as per https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/openzfs-removed-master-slave-terminology-from-its-codebase/
Simon:
the best you can do is ignore the fuckwitts and put them in their places when they come out with this SJW bollocks.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 12, 2020, 04:55:38 pm ---It is no surprise that people who are told they are racist when there's no substance to that claim are defensive about it. It implies the same kind of smug moral superiority on behalf of the messenger that, in Britain at least, we're used to associating with people like Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Muggeridge and other self-appointed moral guardians who berate mere mortals for moral failings that they perceive to exist in the targets of their whitterings, but such moral failings do not in fact exist.

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That pair always made my flesh crawl. Excellent recruiters for the Humanist Association.


--- Quote ---Always, without exception, this kind of rubbish is propagated people who have an obsession with race/sexual politics, not by ordinary folks. Ironically I most often encounter this kind of proselytisation in single white males, invariably against a background of them trying to sound "right on" enough to get into some lasses' knickers. Go figure...

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I believe the term is "virtue signalling". If I had remembered it earlier in this thread, I would have used it pointedly several times.
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Simon on June 12, 2020, 06:26:26 pm ---the best you can do is ignore the fuckwitts and put them in their places when they come out with this SJW bollocks.

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That's just name-calling that's guaranteed to foster an "us and them" attitude on both sides. Whenever I encounter someone using "SJW" as an insult I'm prompted to think "Why are they opposed to this? Does that make them Anti-social Injustice Cowards?". I get a similar feeling when I hear "liberal" used as an insult - what's so good about being illiberal? I like my beer and food in liberal helpings - talking of which I'm getting hungry.
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