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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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tom66:
My girlfriend is black (I am a pasty-white male) and we've already received strange comments.  She thinks most of this is bullshit from well intentioned people that don't have a clue.  That's not to say she hasn't experienced racism and discrimination but it's mostly from people practicing it actively (i.e. assholes) and not passive/pervasive in nature.
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: tom66 on June 14, 2020, 07:39:22 pm ---My girlfriend is black (I am a pasty-white male) and we've already received strange comments.  She thinks most of this is bullshit from well intentioned people that don't have a clue.

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Isn't it interesting how those well intentioned people are, as it turns out, actually racists.
tkamiya:
I'm going to suggest, rather than fixing idiom, names, words, phrases, symbolism, etc, etc, etc, pay more attention to and make a best effort to fix the real issue, which is the racism itself.

I am Asian.  My girlfriend is white American.  Her daughter is white.  The daughter's husband is also white.  My grand child is black.  Our holiday dinner looks like a cafeteria at United Nations!
PlainName:
(Gosh, this is a fast mover.)


--- Quote ---To be clear, this discussion is academic. The terms are not going away.
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I wouldn't be too sure about that. Just needs some Big Ones, such as Google or Git* or similar, to have a policy and over time it will happen. People will just get fed up of swimming against the stream and conform. The only issue is whether the critical mass that introduces the current will be reached, and that's why the big repo holders or code sources are significant. It will REALLY happen if the Linux kernel gets changed.
tom66:
As a good friend of mine says, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."  I do believe most of the people pushing these ideas are well-intending folk, but they have the wrong approach.
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